COMPARATIVE ANATOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comparative anatomy mean? 

• COMPARATIVE ANATOMY (noun)
  The noun COMPARATIVE ANATOMY has 1 sense:

1. the study of anatomical features of animals of different species

  Familiarity information: COMPARATIVE ANATOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPARATIVE ANATOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The study of anatomical features of animals of different species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("comparative anatomy" is a kind of...):

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

 Context examples 

Do you know the altogether of comparative anatomy and can say wherefore the qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I should have thought that even a limited knowledge of comparative anatomy would have helped to verify it," said Summerlee, bitterly.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)