English > zoology: 2 senses > noun 2, cognition| Meaning | The branch of biology that studies animals. |
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| Synonym | zoological science |
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| Category of | acaudate, acaudal | lacking a tail or taillike appendage |
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| alular | pertaining to alulae |
| ambulacral | pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms |
| ametabolic, ametabolous | Undergoing slight or no metamorphosis |
| anguine | Of or related to or resembling a snake |
| annelid, annelidan | relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida |
| anserine | Of or resembling a goose |
| anuran, batrachian, salientian | relating to frogs and toads |
| arachnoid, arachnidian, spidery, spiderlike, spiderly | relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida |
| araneidal, araneidan | relating to or resembling a spider |
| arthropodal, arthropodan, arthropodous | Of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda |
| artiodactyl, artiodactylous, even-toed | Of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla |
| avian | pertaining to or characteristic of birds |
| bivalve, bivalved | Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) |
| brachiate | Having arms or armlike appendages |
| canine | Of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae |
| carangid | Of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae |
| caudate, caudated | Having a tail or taillike appendage |
| cloaca | (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open |
| cold-blooded | Having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated) |
| collar | (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal |
| colonial, compound | Composed of many distinct / distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony |
| disjunct | Having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects |
| estivation, aestivation | (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer |
| filariid | Of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae |
| hood | (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal |
| invertebrate, spineless | lacking a backbone or spinal column |
| jointed | Having joints or jointed segments |
| mantle, pallium | (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell |
| metabolic, metabolous | Undergoing metamorphosis |
| metameric, segmental, segmented | Having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters |
| naturalist, natural scientist | A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) |
| oviparous | egg-laying |
| ovoviviparous | producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body |
| pedate | Having or resembling a foot |
| plastron | (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside |
| protective coloration | coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators |
| scaly, scaley, scaled | Having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles |
| siphon, syphon | A tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled |
| univalve | Used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc. |
| unjointed | Without joints or jointed segments |
| unsegmented, nonsegmental | Having a body that is not divided into segments |
| vagile | Having freedom to move about |
| venation, venous blood system | (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal |
| vertebrate | Having a backbone or spinal column |
| viviparous, live-bearing | producing living young (not eggs) |
| warm-blooded | Having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated) |
| Narrower | entomology, bugology | The branch of zoology that studies insects |
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| ethology | The branch of zoology that studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats |
| herpetology | The branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians |
| ichthyology | The branch of zoology that studies fishes |
| malacology | The branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks |
| mammalogy | The branch of zoology that studies mammals |
| oology | The branch of zoology that studies eggs (especially birds' eggs and their size, shape, coloration, and number) |
| ornithology | The branch of zoology that studies birds |
| paleozoology, palaeozoology | The study of fossil animals |
| protozoology | The branch of zoology that studies protozoans |
| Broader | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
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| Spanish | zoología |
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| Catalan | zoologia |
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| Adjectives | zoological | concerning the study of animals and their classification and properties |
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| Nouns | zoologist | a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals |
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