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TERATOLOGY

Dictionary entry overview: What does teratology mean?

• TERATOLOGY (noun)
The noun TERATOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism

Familiarity information: TERATOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TERATOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The branch of biology concerned with the development of malformations or serious deviations from the normal type of organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("teratology" is a kind of...):

embryology (the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms)

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