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Noun

ornithology (countable and uncountable, plural ornithologies)

  • The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds.
    • ✤ Synonyms: birdlore, fowl-lore
    • ✤ Gesner says in his Ornithology, that this fact was attested by a great many moderns of his own time, and he even quotes Albert the great, who asserts that he has seen a cock foster chickens.1
    • ✤ Jerome A. Jackson, an ivory bill specialist at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, has now increased the intensity of the discussion in a 15-page article in the current issue of The Auk, a quarterly ornithology journal published by the American Ornithologists’ Union.2

Etymology

From New Latin ornithologia, coined by Ulisse Aldrovandi from Ancient Greek ὀρνιθολόγος (ornithológos),3 from ὄρνις (órnis) and λόγος (lógos). See also ornitho- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɔːnɪˈθɒlədʒi/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˌɔɹnɪˈθɑlədʒi/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

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Footnotes

  1. 1750, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, The Art of Hatching and Bringing Up Domestick Fowls of All Kinds at Any Time of the Year: ↩

  2. 2006 January 24, James Gorman, “Ivory Bill Report Is Called ‘Faith-Based Ornithology’”, in The New York Times ‎: ↩

  3. Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004), Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN ↩

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