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entomology

[ en-tuh-mol-uh-jee ]

noun

  1. the branch of zoology dealing with insects.


entomology

/ ˌɛntəməˈlɒdʒɪkəl; ˌɛntəˈmɒlədʒɪ /

noun

  1. the branch of science concerned with the study of insects
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

entomology

/ ĕ′tə-ŏə-ŧ /

  1. The scientific study of insects.
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Derived Forms

  • ˌԳٴˈDZDz, noun
  • entomological, adjective
  • ˌԳٴdzˈDz, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·ٴ··Dz·· [en-t, uh, -m, uh, -, loj, -i-k, uh, l], ·ٴ··Dz· adjective
  • ·ٴ··Dz···ly adverb
  • ·ٴ·DZ·· noun
  • non··ٴ··Dz· adjective
  • non··ٴ··Dz·· adjective
  • un··ٴ··Dz·· adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of entomology1

First recorded in 1760–70; entomo- + -logy
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yvlog History

Scientists who study insects (there are close to a million that can be studied!) are called entomologists. Why are they not called “insectologists”? Well, in a way they are. The word insect comes from the Latin word insectum, meaning “cut up or divided into segments.” (The plural of insectum, namely insecta, is used by scientists as the name of the taxonomic class that insects belong to.) This Latin word was created in order to translate the Greek word for “insect,” which is entomon. This Greek word also literally means “cut up or divided into segments,” and it is the source of the word entomology. The Greeks had coined this term for insects because of the clear division of insect bodies into three segments, now called the head, thorax, and abdomen.
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

He is also a member of an entomology association in Modena, a city in the north of Italy.

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“There’s no sense making a web … if there’s nothing to eat,” said Rick Vetter, a retired research associate in UC Riverside’s entomology department.

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Thomas Ings, an associate professor in zoology specialising in entomology at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, has a long-standing interest in wasps.

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Rupesh Kariyat, an associate professor of entomology and plant pathology with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, has been studying silverleaf nightshade for more than a decade.

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“It changes the architecture of the placenta and the ways nutrients and oxygen are exchanged with the fetus,” said Courtney Murdock, an associate professor at Cornell University’s department of entomology.

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