Crossword clues for cetology
cetology
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cetology \Ce*tol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? whale + -logy: cf. F. c['e]tologie.] The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.
Wiktionary
n. The branch of zoology concerned with the order Cetacea, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises
Wikipedia
Cetology (from Greek , kētos, "whale"; and , -logia) or Whalelore is the branch of marine mammal science that studies the approximately eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoise in the scientific order Cetacea. Cetologists, or those who practice cetology, seek to understand and explain cetacean evolution, distribution, morphology, behavior, community dynamics, and other topics.
Usage examples of "cetology".
First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.
I should like to know, will you obtain a better chance to study practical cetology than here?
Hence, all the smaller, spouting and horizontal tailed fish must be included in this ground-plan of Cetology.
Cetology than any other detached bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents.
I should like to know, will you obtain a better chance to study practical cetology than here?
Therefore you must not, in every case at least take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematisation of cetology.