say it: zoh-AH-luh-jee
zoology is a noun meaning "all the animal life in a particular region or period". It carries 2 recorded senses.
all the animal life in a particular region or period
“the fauna of China”
“the zoology of the Pliocene epoch”
the branch of biology that studies animals
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zoology come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.