The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ornithologic \Or`ni*tho*log"ic\, Ornithological \Or`ni*tho*log"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. ornithologique.] Of or pertaining to ornithology; as, her ornithological interests.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1802, from ornithology + -ical. Related: Ornithologically.
Wiktionary
a. of or pertaining to ornithology
WordNet
adj. of or relating to ornithology; "her ornithological interests"
Usage examples of "ornithological".
For their counsel and corrections on matters cetological, ichthyological, chondrichthian, ornithological, hyperbaric and cryptomedical, I am in debt to Richard Ellis and Stanton Waterman.
Though ornithological writers are almost unanimous in distinguishing the buzzards as a group from the eagles, the grounds usually assigned for their separation are but slight, and the diagnostic character that can be best trusted is probably that in the former the bill is decurved from the base, while in the latter it is for about a third of its length straight.
The Alpine Clubs, the Jagdschutzverein in Germany, which has over 100,000 members--hunters, educated foresters, zoologists, and simple lovers of Nature--and the International Ornithological Society, which includes zoologists, breeders, and simple peasants in Germany, have the same character.
Zimmerman missed men ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For their counsel and corrections on matters cetological, ichthyological, chondrichthian, ornithological, hyperbaric and cryptomedical, I am in debt to Richard Ellis and Stanton Waterman.