ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

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• ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the branch of biology that studies animals

  Familiarity information: ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

• ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE (noun)

Meaning:

The branch of biology that studies animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

zoological science; zoology

Hypernyms ("zoological science" is a kind of...):

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Domain member category:

siphon; syphon (a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled)

plastron ((zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside)

protective coloration (coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators)

mantle; pallium ((zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell)

venation; venous blood system ((zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal)

natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))

aestivation; estivation ((zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period)

anterior (of or near the head end or toward the front plane of the body)

posterior (at or near the hind end in quadrupeds or toward the spine in primates)

brachiate (having arms or armlike appendages)

scaled; scaley; scaly (having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles)

jointed (having joints or jointed segments)

unjointed (without joints or jointed segments)

vagile (having freedom to move about)

caudate; caudated (having a tail or taillike appendage)

acaudal; acaudate (lacking a tail or taillike appendage)

pedate (having or resembling a foot)

metabolic; metabolous (undergoing metamorphosis)

ametabolic; ametabolous (undergoing slight or no metamorphosis)

colonial; compound (composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony)

nonsegmental; unsegmented (having a body that is not divided into segments)

disjunct (having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects)

metameric; segmental; segmented (having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters)

univalve (used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc.)

bivalve; bivalved (used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.))

vertebrate (having a backbone or spinal column)

invertebrate; spineless (lacking a backbone or spinal column)

live-bearing; viviparous (producing living young (not eggs))

oviparous (egg-laying)

ovoviviparous (producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body)

warm-blooded (having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated))

cold-blooded (having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated))

alular (pertaining to alulae)

ambulacral (pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms)

anguine (of or related to or resembling a snake)

annelid; annelidan (relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida)

anserine (of or resembling a goose)

anuran; batrachian; salientian (relating to frogs and toads)

arachnidian; arachnoid; spiderlike; spiderly; spidery (relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida)

araneidal; araneidan (relating to or resembling a spider)

arthropodal; arthropodan; arthropodous (of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda)

artiodactyl; artiodactylous; even-toed (of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla)

avian (pertaining to or characteristic of birds)

canine (of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae)

carangid (of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae)

filariid (of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zoological science"):

bugology; entomology (the branch of zoology that studies insects)

protozoology (the branch of zoology that studies protozoans)

ornithology (the branch of zoology that studies birds)

oology (the branch of zoology that studies eggs (especially birds' eggs and their size, shape, coloration, and number))

mammalogy (the branch of zoology that studies mammals)

malacology (the branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks)

ichthyology (the branch of zoology that studies fishes)

herpetology (the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians)

ethology (the branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats)

palaeozoology; paleozoology (the study of fossil animals)