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insectology

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[in-sek-tol-uh-jee] / ˌɪn sɛkˈtɒl ə dʒi /

noun

  1. entomology.


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Etymology

Origin of insectology

First recorded in 1760–70; insect + -o- + -logy


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What they saw was blue blood, or something in insectology corresponding to it.

From Birds in Town and Village by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

What would posterity think of us if we had nothing to transmit to it save a complete insectology, an immense history of microscopic animals?

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley

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