HOW TO PRONOUNCE
zoology
/zoʊˈɑlədʒi/
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Stress the second syllable.
The IPA shown begins with zoh followed by a separate stressed vowel. A zoo opening also occurs; the ending has the j of job.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The museum has a zoology collection.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does zoology mean?
noun
- The part of biology relating to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
- A treatise on this science.
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IPA pronunciation
/zoʊˈɑlədʒi/
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Until he had mastered the principles of zoology, his efforts to make anything out of them would be random and blind.
The zoology of Tierra del Fuego, as might have been expected from the nature of its climate and vegetation, is very poor.
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Without it the sciences of chemistry, physics, astronomy, microscopic anatomy, zoology, and botany, not to mention its domestic uses, would be almost impossible.
Cuvier made careful studies, especially of fossil vertebrates, from the standpoint of zoology and was thus the founder of palaeontology as a biological science.
As the creator of the sciences of comparative anatomy, systematic zoology, embryology, teratology, botany and physiology, his writings have an eternal interest.