zoology

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English

Alternative forms

• zoölogy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōon, “animal”) + λόγος (logos, “knowledge”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /zəʊˈɒlədʒi/, SAMPA: /z@U"Ql@dZi/
• (UK) \Zo*["o]l"o*gy\
• (US) IPA: /zoʊˈɑlədʒi/
• (US) (non standard) IPA: /zuˈɑlədʒi/

Noun

zoology (plural zoologies)

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.

Derived terms

• zoological
• zoologist

Translations

science that studies the animal kingdom

Arabic: علم الحيوان  (ar) m. Armenian: կենդանաբանություն (kendanabanut'yun) Bulgarian: зоология (zoológija) f. (1) Catalan: zoologia (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 動物學 (cmn), 动物学 (cmn) (dòngwùxué) Croatian: zoològija (hr) f. Czech: zoologie (cs) f. Dutch: zoölogie (nl), dierkunde (nl) Esperanto: zoologio (eo) Estonian: zooloogia (et) Finnish: eläintiede (fi) French: zoologie (fr) f. Galician: zooloxía (gl) f. German: Zoologie (de) f. Greek: ζωολογία (el) (zo'oloγía) f.

Hungarian: állattan (hu), zoológia (hu) Interlingua: zoologia (ia) Italian: zoologia (it) f. Japanese: 動物学 (ja) (dōbutsugaku) Lithuanian: zoologija (lt) f. Malay: kaji haiwan (ms), zoologi (ms) Malayalam: ജന്തുശാസ്ത്രം (ml) Navajo: naaldeehii naalkaah Polish: zoologia (pl) f. Romanian: zoologie (ro) f. Russian: зоология (ru) (zoológija) f. Scottish Gaelic: ainmh-eòlas (gd) m. Slovak: zoológia (sk) f. Spanish: zoología (es) f. Turkish: zooloji (tr) Welsh: sŵoleg (cy) f.

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Novial: soologia

Persian: جانورشناسی (jânevar-šenâsi) Swedish: zoologi (sv) c.