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The branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians
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herpetology
Word definitions for herpetology in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Herpetology \Her`pe*tol"o*gy\, n. [Written also, but less properly, erpetology.] [Gr. ? a creeping thing, reptile (fr. ? to creep) + -logy: cf. F. herp['e]tologie.] The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zo["o]logy which relates to reptiles, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The branch of biology dealing with reptiles (''Reptilia'') or amphibians.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"study of reptiles," 1816, from French herpétologie (18c.), coined from Greek herpeton "reptile," literally "creeping thing," from herpein "to creep" (see serpent ) + logia (see -logy ). Related: Herpetologist .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Herpetology (from Greek "herpien" meaning "to creep") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs , toads , salamanders , newts , and caecilians ( gymnophiona )) and reptiles (including snakes , lizards , amphisbaenids ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians
Usage examples of herpetology.
While he tended to think of the man as a dried-up old prune, somewhere in Professor Rami’s shriveled chest apparently beat a heart: he could’ve just as easily assigned Daniel to the Herpetology Department.
Christine also had a stuffed passenger pigeon (the ROM’s Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology—the slapped-together catchall formed by merging the old ichthyology, herpetology, mammalogy, and ornithology departments—had about twenty of them).
When I was getting my herpetology degree, my roommate was so envious of a new toad I had discovered that he stole and ate my only specimen.
But when he went to a herpetology convention in Brussels last fall, his shock became greater.
Bravely today one devises something 'interdisciplinary': perhaps a pilot survey of Postlapsarian Herpetology and Pomegranate Culture.