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ornithologies

ornithologies is the plural of ornithology.

Meaning of ornithology

Noun

ornithology (countable and uncountable, plural ornithologies)

  1. The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds.
    • 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.1750, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, The Art of Hatching and Bringing Up Domestick Fowls of All Kinds at Any Time of the Year
    Synonyms:
    birdlore, fowl-lore

Questions about ornithologies

What is ornithologies the plural of?
Ornithologies is the plural of ornithology.

Words near ornithologies in the dictionary

  1. ornithologer
  2. ornithologers
  3. ornithologic
  4. ornithological
  5. ornithologically
  6. ornithologies
  7. ornithologist
  8. ornithologists
  9. ornithologize
  10. ornithologized
  11. ornithologizes

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