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PALEOZOOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paleozoology mean? 

PALEOZOOLOGY (noun)
  The noun PALEOZOOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the study of fossil animalsplay

  Familiarity information: PALEOZOOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PALEOZOOLOGY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The study of fossil animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

palaeozoology; paleozoology

Hypernyms ("paleozoology" is a kind of...):

palaeobiology; paleobiology (a branch of paleontology that deals with the origin and growth and structure of fossil animals and plants as living organisms)

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paleozoology"):

paleomammalogy (the paleobiology of ancient mammals)

palaeornithology; paleornithology (the paleobiology of birds)


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