ZOOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zoology mean? 

• ZOOLOGY (noun)
  The noun ZOOLOGY has 2 senses:

1. all the animal life in a particular region or period

2. the branch of biology that studies animals

  Familiarity information: ZOOLOGY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZOOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the animal life in a particular region or period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

fauna; zoology

Context example:

the zoology of the Pliocene epoch

Hypernyms ("zoology" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meronyms (members of "zoology"):

animal group (a group of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zoology"):

avifauna (the birds of a particular region or period)

Holonyms ("zoology" is a member of...):

biology; biota (all the plant and animal life of a particular region)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The branch of biology that studies animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

zoological science; zoology

Hypernyms ("zoology" is a kind of...):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Domain member category:

ambulacral (pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms)

univalve (used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc.)

alular (pertaining to alulae)

cold-blooded (having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated))

warm-blooded (having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated))

ovoviviparous (producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body)

oviparous (egg-laying)

live-bearing; viviparous (producing living young (not eggs))

invertebrate; spineless (lacking a backbone or spinal column)

vertebrate (having a backbone or spinal column)

bivalve; bivalved (used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.))

hood ((zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal)

anguine (of or related to or resembling a snake)

annelid; annelidan (relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida)

anserine (of or resembling a goose)

anuran; batrachian; salientian (relating to frogs and toads)

arachnidian; arachnoid; spiderlike; spiderly; spidery (relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida)

araneidal; araneidan (relating to or resembling a spider)

arthropodal; arthropodan; arthropodous (of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda)

artiodactyl; artiodactylous; even-toed (of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla)

avian (pertaining to or characteristic of birds)

canine (of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae)

carangid (of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae)

filariid (of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae)

disjunct (having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects)

siphon; syphon (a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled)

plastron ((zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside)

collar ((zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal)

protective coloration (coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators)

mantle; pallium ((zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell)

cloaca ((zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open)

venation; venous blood system ((zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal)

natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))

aestivation; estivation ((zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period)

brachiate (having arms or armlike appendages)

scaled; scaley; scaly (having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles)

jointed (having joints or jointed segments)

unjointed (without joints or jointed segments)

vagile (having freedom to move about)

caudate; caudated (having a tail or taillike appendage)

acaudal; acaudate (lacking a tail or taillike appendage)

pedate (having or resembling a foot)

metabolic; metabolous (undergoing metamorphosis)

ametabolic; ametabolous (undergoing slight or no metamorphosis)

colonial; compound (composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony)

nonsegmental; unsegmented (having a body that is not divided into segments)

metameric; segmental; segmented (having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zoology"):

bugology; entomology (the branch of zoology that studies insects)

ethology (the branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats)

herpetology (the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians)

ichthyology (the branch of zoology that studies fishes)

malacology (the branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks)

mammalogy (the branch of zoology that studies mammals)

oology (the branch of zoology that studies eggs (especially birds' eggs and their size, shape, coloration, and number))

ornithology (the branch of zoology that studies birds)

protozoology (the branch of zoology that studies protozoans)

palaeozoology; paleozoology (the study of fossil animals)

Derivation:

zoological (concerning the study of animals and their classification and properties)

zoologist (a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals)

 Context examples 

Entomology; the branch of zoology that studies insects.

(Entomology, NCI Thesaurus)

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is not a conceivable bone either of a tapir or of any other creature known to zoology.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was my business to visit this little-known back-country and to examine its fauna, which furnished me with the materials for several chapters for that great and monumental work upon zoology which will be my life's justification.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)