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单词 oology
释义 oology|əʊˈɒlədʒɪ|
[mod. f. Gr. ᾠό-ν egg + -λογία -logy: cf. mod.L. oologia (Garmann 1691); mod.F. oölogie (Littré).]
a. The study of, or a description of, birds' eggs; that department of ornithology which treats of the eggs of birds, esp. in regard to their external appearance.
b. The practice of collecting birds' eggs.
1831–7W. C. Hewitson (title) British Oology; being Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, with Figures of each Species.1869Lowell Wks. (1890) III. 217 Since bird-nesting has become scientific and dignified itself as oölogy.1883Nature XXVII. 308/1 Australian birds, whose nidification and oology had previously been imperfectly known.
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