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# zoology

noun (zoology – uncountable)

«zoology» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The science that studies animals: their bodies, how they live, grow, behave and where they come from. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/#m1)
2. The animal life of a place: «the zoology of Australia» (formal). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/#m2)

### In the lessons

A school science word: zoology is one branch of biology; botany studies plants. A zoologist studies animals, maybe in a lab, a zoo or the wild. In lessons we classify animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects) – that is zoology. Stories like the Just So Stories give made-up reasons for animal features, and zoology gives the true ones (for example, how leopards really got spots through evolution).

### Examples

- Zoology is the study of animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/#x1)
- My cousin is studying zoology at university. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/#x2)
- We learned some zoology when we sorted animals into groups. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/#x3)
- A zoology book explained how bats find their way in the dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/#x4)
- She wants a job in zoology, working with gorillas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/#x5)
- Kipling's stories are fun, but zoology tells us how the camel really got its hump. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable: no «a zoology». Said «zoo-OL-uh-jee» or «zoh-OL-uh-jee». Related words: zoologist (person), zoological (adjective), zoo (short for zoological garden). The ending «-ology» means «the study of».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «zoology» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zoology/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«zoology» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/zoology.html) on Mova free.