Ornithology

//ˌɔːnɪˈθɒlədʒi// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds. countable, uncountable

    "Gesner says in his Ornithology, that this fact was attested by a great many moderns of his own time, and he even quotes Albert the great, who asserts that he has seen a cock foster chickens."

  2. 2
    the branch of zoology that studies birds wordnet

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anatomyanimal physiologyanthropologybiologybirdlorecomparative anatomy

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"Since 1965, Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology has collected over 400,000 records on most of North America's breeding birds."

Etymology

From New Latin ornithologia, coined by Ulisse Aldrovandi from Ancient Greek ὀρνιθολόγος (ornithológos), from ὄρνις (órnis) and λόγος (lógos). See also ornitho- + -logy.

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