zoological science

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zoological science - the branch of biology that studies animals zoology siphon, syphon - a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled hood - (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal plastron - (zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside collar - (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal protective coloration - coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators pallium, mantle - (zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell 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 venous blood system, venation - (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms bugology, entomology - the branch of zoology that studies insects 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 protozoology - the branch of zoology that studies protozoans palaeozoology, paleozoology - the study of fossil animals natural scientist, naturalist - a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) aestivation, estivation - (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period vagile - having freedom to move about; "vagile aquatic animals" caudate, caudated - having a tail or taillike appendage acaudal, acaudate - lacking a tail or taillike appendage metabolous, metabolic - undergoing metamorphosis ametabolic, ametabolous - undergoing slight or no metamorphosis univalve - used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc. bivalve, bivalved - used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) vertebrate - having a backbone or spinal column; "fishes and amphibians and reptiles and birds and mammals are verbetrate animals" invertebrate, spineless - lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals" live-bearing, viviparous - producing living young (not eggs) oviparous - egg-laying ovoviviparous - producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body warm-blooded - having warm blood (in animals whose body temperature is internally regulated) cold-blooded - having cold blood (in animals whose body temperature is not internally regulated) alular - pertaining to alulae ambulacral - pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms 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 arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery - 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