zoology

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

noun

1. all the animal life in a particular region or period
- the fauna of China
- the zoology of the Pliocene epoch
• Syn:
fauna
• Ant:
flora (for: fauna)
• Hypernyms:
collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
• Hyponyms:
avifauna
• Member Holonyms:
biota, biology
• Member Meronyms:
animal group
2. the branch of biology that studies animals
• Syn:
zoological science
• Derivationally related forms:
zoological, zoologist
• Members of this Topic:
brachiate, scaly, scaley, scaled, jointed,
unjointed, vagile, caudate, caudated, acaudate, acaudal,
pedate, metabolic, metabolous, ametabolic, ametabolous, colonial,
compound, unsegmented, nonsegmental, disjunct, metameric, segmental,
segmented, univalve, bivalve, bivalved, vertebrate, invertebrate,
spineless, viviparous, live-bearing, oviparous, ovoviviparous, warm-blooded,
cold-blooded, alular, ambulacral, anguine, annelid, annelidan,
anserine, anuran, batrachian, salientian, arachnoid, arachnidian,
spidery, spiderlike, spiderly, araneidal, araneidan, arthropodal,
arthropodan, arthropodous, artiodactyl, artiodactylous, even-toed, avian,
canine, carangid, filariid, siphon, syphon, hood,
plastron, collar, protective coloration, mantle, pallium, cloaca,
venation, venous blood system, naturalist, natural scientist, estivation, aestivation
• Hypernyms:
biology, biological science
• Hyponyms:
entomology, bugology, ethology, herpetology, ichthyology,
ichthyology, mammalogy, oology, ornithology, protozoology,
paleozoology, palaeozoology

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  zoological science, fauna
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  vegetation, flora, botany