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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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zoology science which treats of animals (first applied to that part of medical science which treats of remedies obtainable from animals). XVII. — modL.
zōologia, modGr.
zōiología, f. Gr.
zôion animal; see
ZODIAC,
-LOGY.
Hence
zoological XIX,
zoologist XVII.
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Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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