zoology

Noun
  1. All the animal life in a particular region or period (synset 108009721)
    "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch"
    is a type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
    subtypes: avifauna - the birds of a particular region or period
    member holonym: animal group - a group of animals
    belongs to: biology, biota - all the plant and animal life of a particular region
    same as: fauna
  2. The branch of biology that studies animals (synset 106092831)
    associated with:
    • siphon, syphon - a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled
    • hood - (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
    • plastron - (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside
    • collar - (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal
    • 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
    • cloaca - (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open
    • 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
    • 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
    is a type of: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
    subtypes:
    • bugology, entomology - the branch of zoology that studies insects
    • ethology - the branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats
    • herpetology - the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians
    • ichthyology - the branch of zoology that studies fishes
    • malacology - the branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks
    • mammalogy - the branch of zoology that studies mammals
    • oology - the branch of zoology that studies eggs (especially birds' eggs and their size, shape, coloration, and number)
    • ornithology - the branch of zoology that studies birds
    • protozoology - the branch of zoology that studies protozoans
    • palaeozoology, paleozoology - the study of fossil animals
    same as: zoological science

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