English noun: zoology |
| 1. | zoology (group) all the animal life in a particular region or period |
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| Samples | The fauna of China.
The zoology of the Pliocene epoch.
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| Synonyms | fauna |
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| Broader (hypernym) | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | avifauna |
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| Member holonym | animal group |
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| Member meronym | biology, biota |
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| Antonyms | botany, flora, vegetation |
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| 2. | zoology (cognition) the branch of biology that studies animals |
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| Synonyms | zoological science |
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| Broader (hypernym) | biological science, biology |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bugology, entomology, ethology, herpetology, ichthyology, malacology, mammalogy, oology, ornithology, palaeozoology, paleozoology, protozoology |
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| Domain category members | acaudal, acaudate, aestivation, alular, ambulacral, ametabolic, ametabolous, anguine, annelid, annelidan, anserine, anuran, arachnidian, arachnoid, araneidal, araneidan, arthropodal, arthropodan, arthropodous, artiodactyl, artiodactylous, avian, batrachian, bivalve, bivalved, brachiate, canine, carangid, caudate, caudated, cloaca, cold-blooded, collar, colonial, compound, disjunct, estivation, even-toed, filariid, hood, invertebrate, jointed, live-bearing, mantle, metabolic, metabolous, metameric, natural scientist, naturalist, nonsegmental, oviparous, ovoviviparous, pallium, pedate, plastron, protective coloration, salientian, scaled, scaley, scaly, segmental, segmented, siphon, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery, spineless, syphon, univalve, unjointed, unsegmented, vagile, venation, venous blood system, vertebrate, viviparous, warm-blooded |
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