Several of the shelves were occupied by specimens of entomology.
Myrmecology: that branch of entomology that deals with ants.
The entomology, too, of the desert did not escape our attention.
This volume treats of the poetry rather than the science of entomology.
One of our masters of entomology did me the honour to visit my laboratory.
The handbooks on entomology which I possess seem not to have heard of him.
In entomology little can be said, unless by the most acute observer.
A recent discovery in entomology is the fact that ants have a voice.
Lectures have been given in entomology, farm chemistry, and marketing.
If I remember rightly, we rolled you in nettles to cure you of entomology.
1766, from French entomologie (1764), coined from Greek entomon "insect" + -logia "study of" (see -logy). Entomon is neuter of entomos "having a notch or cut (at the waist)," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + temnein "to cut" (see tome).
So called by Aristotle in reference to the segmented division of insect bodies. Compare insect. Related: Entomological. Hybrid insectology (1766, from French insectologie, 1744) is not much used.
I have given the name insectology to that part of natural history which has insects for its object; that of entomology ... would undoubtedly have been more suitable ... but its barbarous sound terryfy'd me. [Charles Bonnet's English translation of his "Contemplation de la nature," 1766]
entomology en·to·mol·o·gy (ěn'tə-mŏl'ə-jē)
n.
The study of insects.
