OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22063

oology

/əʊˈɒləd͡ʒi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
oología
The study of birds' eggs.
Now here is just one of those cases, which bring the study of Oology, and very justly, into more discredit than any other thing. M. [Alfred] Moquin-Tandon's egg is very likely that…
Yet it is not difficult to see that Oölogy promises to become an important auxiliary both in aiding to determine natural divisions, and to enable us to decide in regard to varietie…
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