zoology

See also: zoölogy

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Alternative forms

• zoölogy (chiefly dated)
• zo-ology (rare)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”) + λόγος (lógos, “knowledge”). By surface analysis, zoo- +‎ -logy. Piecewise doublet of biology.

Pronunciation

• enPR: zō-ŏl′-ə-jē, zo͞o-ŏl′-ə-jē
• (UK) IPA^(key): /zəʊˈɒlədʒi/, /zuːˈɒləd͡ʒi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /zoʊˈɑləd͡ʒi/, /zuˈɑləd͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

zoology (countable and uncountable, plural zoologies)

2. The part of biology relating to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

   Meronym: ethology

3. A treatise on this science.

Usage notes

The pronunciation in /zu-/ has often received negative comment, but has nevertheless become very common, especially in British English.

Derived terms

• anthrozoology
• archaeozoology
• archeozoology
• bryozoology
• cartozoology
• cryptozoology
• epizoology
• ethnozoology
• malacozoology
• mastozoology
• paleozoology
• protozoology
• xenozoology
• zoologer
• zoologic
• zoological
• zoologically
• zoologist
• zoologize

Translations

science that studies the animal kingdom

Afrikaans: dierkunde (af) Albanian: zoologjia Arabic: عِلْم اَلْحَيَوَان (ar) m (ʕilm al-ḥayawān) Aragonese: zoolochía f Armenian: կենդանաբանություն (hy) (kendanabanutʻyun) Asturian: zooloxía (ast) f Azerbaijani: zoologiya Belarusian: заалогія f (zaalóhija) Bengali: প্রাণিবিজ্ঞান (pranibiggên) Breton: loenoniezh (br) f Bulgarian: зоология (bg) f (zoologija) Burmese: သတ္တဗေဒ (my) (satta.beda.) Catalan: zoologia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 動物學 / 动物学 (zh) (dòngwùxué), 动物学 (zh) (dòngwùxué) Cornish: milonieth f Czech: zoologie (cs) f Danish: zoologi (da) c Dutch: zoölogie (nl), dierkunde (nl) Esperanto: zoologio Estonian: zooloogia (et) Finnish: eläintiede (fi), zoologia (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 (zoologiä) Khmer: សត្វវិទ្យា (sat vityie) Korean: 동물학(動物學) (ko) (dongmulhak) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: ajalnasî (ku) f Kyrgyz: зоология (ky) (zoologiya) Latvian: zooloģija f Lithuanian: zoologija (lt) f Macedonian: зоологија f (zoologija) Malay: kaji haiwan, zoologi (ms) Malayalam: ജന്തുശാസ്ത്രം (jantuśāstraṁ) Maori: mātai kīrehe Marathi: प्राणिशास्त्र (prāṇiśāstra) Navajo: naaldeehii naalkaah Norwegian: Bokmål: zoologi (no) m Nynorsk: zoologi m Occitan: zoologia (oc) f Persian: جانورشناسی (fa) (jânvar-šenâsi) Pitcairn-Norfolk: soo'ologii Plautdietsch: Tiakonst f Polish: zoologia (pl) f Portuguese: zoologia (pt) f Punjabi: ਜੰਤੂ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (jantū vigiāna) 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 Swahili: zoolojia (sw) Swedish: zoologi (sv) c Tagalog: dalubhayupan Tajik: ҷонваршиносӣ (jonvaršinosi) Tamil: விலங்கியல் (ta) (vilaṅkiyal) Telugu: జంతుశాస్త్రము (te) (jantuśāstramu) Thai: สัตววิทยา (th) (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)