ethnobiologyn.
/ˌɛθnəʊbʌɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊˌbaɪˈɑlədʒi/ The traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and animals; the scientific study or description of this.
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1935 E. F. Castetter Univ. New Mexico Bull.: Ethnobiol. Stud. Amer. Southwest 1st Paper. 3 Ethnobiology is a field of investigation which, if properly and adequately pursued, is of great value.
1988 Amer. Antiq. 53 438/2 A very valuable source book, a first place to go to acquire a basic understanding of the ethnobiology of arid America.
2008 E. S. Hunn Zapotec Nat. Hist. i. 17 These critics argued that the study of ethnobiology should be subordinate to the study of ethnoecology.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1935- magic glass
- magic hour
- magic lantern
- magic lantern slide
- magic marker
- magic million
- magic mirror
- magic mushroom
- magic number
- magic pane
- magic pudding
- magic realism
- magic realist
- magic shop
- magic sponge
- magic square
- magic squares
- magic stitch
- magic t
- magic thinking
- magic touch
- magic word
- magic-angle spinning
- magic-gifted
- magic-lantern