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The branch of zoology that studies insects
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entomology
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of zoology that studies insects [syn: bugology ]
Wiktionary
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n. The scientific study of insects.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1764, from French entomologie (1764), coined from -logie "study of" (see -logy ) + Greek entomon "insect," neuter of entomos "cut in pieces, cut up," in this case "having a notch or cut (at the waist)," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + temnein "to cut" (see ...
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thumb|upright=1.2|A phasmid , mimicking a leaf Entomology (from Greek , entomon "insect"; and , -logia ) is the scientific study of insects , a branch of zoology . In the past the term "insect" was more vague, and historically the definition of entomology ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entomology \En`to*mol"o*gy\, n.; pl. Entomologies . [Gr. 'e`ntomon insect (so called because nearly cut in two, fr. 'e`ntomos cut in; 'en in + te`mnein to cut) + -logy: cf. F. entomologie. See In , and Tome , and cf. Insect .] That part of ...
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Entomology is far less essentialistic, far more open to difference and change, far more attentive to the body, than is, say, cultural critique grounded in Frankfurt School post-Marxism or in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
In this marvellous study, which constitutes, with the history of the Cerceris, the finest masterpiece of experimental entomology, Fabre brilliantly establishes all the details of that curious law which in the Hymenoptera rules both the distribution and the succession of the sexes.
Then you have zoology, or the study of animals, ornithology for birds, entomology for insects, conchology for shells, ichthyology for fishes.
Again, under a third name, with a crew haircut and a stocky-muscled build, he'd been a field entomologist, explorer, and survival expert, able to flourish indefinitely in the wilderness without so much as a pocketknife or canteen of water -- but the Departments of Cartography and Entomology, satisfied as they were with his abilities and indifferent of his credentials, had reluctantly to fire him when he refused to disclose his methods.
Joe, who was doing simultaneous degrees in atomic physics, medieval studies, entomology, philosophy, hotel/motel management, linguistics, and electrical engineering at Yale, knew a thing or two about spaceships.
Along with an orientation, volunteers are given core training in plant science, plant propagation, soil science, plant pathology, entomology, communication skills, and integrated pest management.
Gordon Edwards is a professor emeritus of entomology at San Jose State University in California, having taught biology and entomology there for over forty years, and a lifetime fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
The books in the biology section of the science wing might be subdivided into shelves devoted to physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, entomology, and so on.