Zoology

Zo-ol′o-gy

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Zoologies

.

[

Zoo-

+

-logy

: cf. F.

zoologie

. See

Zodiac

.]

1.

That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

2.

A treatise on this science.

Zoology

ZOOLOGY

,

Noun.

[Gr., an animal; discourse.] A treatise on animals, or the science of animals; that branch of natural history which respects the forms, classification, history and habits of animals, particularly of brutes or irrational animals.

zoology

See also: zoölogy

English

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Alternative forms

zoölogy

Noun

zoology ‎(countable and uncountable, plural zoologies)

That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
A treatise on this science.

Derived terms

Terms derived from zoology

Translations

science that studies the animal kingdom

Afrikaans: dierkunde
Albanian: zoologjia
Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَيَوَان m ‎(ʿilm al-ḥayawān)
Armenian: կենդանաբանություն (hy) ‎(kendanabanutʿyun)
Asturian: zooloxía f
Azeri: zoologiya
Belarusian: заалогія f ‎(zaalohija)
Bengali: প্রাণিবিজ্ঞান ‎(praṇibiggan)
Breton: loenoniezh (br) f
Bulgarian: зоология (bg) f ‎(zoologija)
Burmese: သတ္တဗေဒ (my) ‎(satta.beda.)
Catalan: zoologia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 動物學 (zh), 动物学 (zh) ‎(dòngwùxué)
Cornish: milionieth f
Czech: zoologie (cs) f
Danish: zoologi (da) c
Dutch: zoölogie (nl), dierkunde (nl)
Esperanto: zoologio
Estonian: zooloogia (et)
Finnish: eläintiede (fi)
French: zoologie (fr) f
Galician: zooloxía (gl) f
Georgian: ზოოლოგია ‎(zoologia)
German: Zoologie (de) f, Tierkunde f
Greek: ζωολογία (el) f ‎(zoología)
Gujarati: પ્રાણીશાસ્ત્ર ‎(prāṇīśāstra)
Hebrew: זואולוגיה (he) f ‎(zo'ológya)
Hindi: प्राणि विज्ञान m ‎(prāṇi vijñān)
Hungarian: állattan (hu), zoológia (hu)
Icelandic: dýrafræði (is) f
Ido: zoologio (io)
Indonesian: zoologi (id)
Interlingua: zoologia (ia)
Irish: zó-eolaíocht (ga) f
Italian: zoologia (it) f
Japanese: 動物学 (ja) ‎(どうぶつがく, dōbutsugaku)
Kazakh: зоология ‎(zoologïya)
Khmer: សត្វវិទ្យា ‎(sat vityie)
Korean: 동물학 (ko) ‎(dongmurhak) (動物學 (ko))
Kurdish: ajalnasî (ku) f

Kyrgyz: зоология (ky) ‎(zoologiya)
Latvian: zooloģija f
Lithuanian: zoologija (lt) f
Macedonian: зоологија f ‎(zoologija)
Malay: kaji haiwan, zoologi
Malayalam: ജന്തുശാസ്ത്രം ‎(jantuśāstraṃ)
Marathi: प्राणिशास्त्र ‎(prāṇiśāstra)
Navajo: naaldeehii naalkaah
Norwegian:

Bokmål: zoologi (no) m

Nynorsk: zoologi m
Persian: جانورشناسی (fa) ‎(jânvar-šenâsi)
Pitcairn-Norfolk: soo'ologii
Polish: zoologia (pl) f
Portuguese: zoologia (pt) f
Punjabi: ਜੰਤੂ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ ‎(jantū vigiān)
Romanian: zoologie (ro) f
Russian: зооло́гия (ru) f ‎(zoológija)
Scottish Gaelic: ainmh-eòlas m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: зоологија f

Roman: zoologija (sh) f
Slovak: zoológia f
Slovene: zoologija (sl) f
Spanish: zoología (es) f
Swedish: zoologi (sv) c
Tagalog: dalubhayupan
Tajik: ҷонваршиносӣ ‎(jonvaršinosī)
Tamil: விலங்கியல் (ta) ‎(vilaṅkiyal)
Telugu: జంతుశాస్త్రము (te) ‎(jaṃtuśāstramu)
Thai: สัตววิทยา ‎(sàt wíttáyaa)
Turkish: zooloji (tr)
Turkmen: zoologiýa
Ukrainian: зоологія (uk) f ‎(zoolohija)
Uzbek: zoologiya (uz)
Vietnamese: động vật học (vi) (動物學)
Welsh: sŵoleg (cy) f
Yiddish: זאָאָלאָגיע f ‎(zoologye)

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