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zoologise

zoologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zoologize.

Meaning of zoologize

Verb

zoologize (third-person singular simple present zoologizes, present participle zoologizing, simple past and past participle zoologized)

  1. (intransitive) To study zoology, especially by collecting animals to be studied.
    • There it erects tents capable of holding about one hundred and fifty people, and there the members and their friends gather for a fortnight to climb mountains, botanize, zoologize, or merely enjoy life.1931, Marie Beuzeville Byles, By Cargo Boat & Mountain: The Unconventional Experiences of a Woman on Tramp Round the World, page 141
  2. (intransitive) To discuss zoology.
    • The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.1866, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard, The Eclectic Magazine - Volume 4, page 188

Forms of zoologise

third-person singular presentzoologises
present participlezoologising
past participlezoologised
pastzoologised

Questions about zoologise

What is zoologise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Zoologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zoologize.

Words near zoologise in the dictionary

  1. zoological names
  2. zoological park
  3. zoological parks
  4. zoologically
  5. zoologies
  6. zoologise
  7. zoologised
  8. zoologises
  9. zoologising
  10. zoologist
  11. zoologists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zoologise (page history and authors); zoologize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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