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Entomology   /ˌɛntəmˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Entomology

noun
(pl. entomologies)
1.
The branch of zoology that studies insects.  Synonym: bugology.






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"Entomology" Quotes from Famous Books



... languages, cards, swimming, diary-keeping, the stage, politics, carpentry, riding or driving, music, staying up late, getting up early, tree-planting, tree-felling, town-planning, amateur soldiering, statics, entomology, botany, elocution, children-fancying, cigar-fancying, wife-fancying, placid domestic evenings, conjuring, bacteriology, thought-reading, mechanics, geology, sketching, bell-ringing, theosophy, his own soul, ...
— The Plain Man and His Wife • Arnold Bennett

... other words, though the gnat needs wing surface in a ratio of forty-nine square feet per pound of weight, a great condor manages to sail along majestically with .59 of a square foot to at least a pound of weight. The unexplained phenomenon persists consistently throughout the whole domain of entomology and ornithology. Going up the scale from the gnat, it is found that with the dragon fly this ratio is 30 to 1, with the tipula, or daddy-longlegs, 14.5 to 1, the cockchafer only 5.15 to 1, the rhinoceros beetle ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser



Words linked to "Entomology" :   lepidoptery, lepidopterology, entomologic, caste, entomological, bugology, zoology, zoological science, entomologist



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