zoological

[ zoh-uh-loj-i-kuhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to zoology.
2. relating to or concerned with animals.

Other Words From

• zoo·logi·cal·ly adverb
• nonzo·o·logic adjective
• nonzo·o·logi·cal adjective
• nonzo·o·logi·cal·ly adverb
• pseudo·zoo·logi·cal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of zoological¹

First recorded in 1800–10; zoolog(y) + -ical

Example Sentences

The next day, Cajal countered with a precise, forceful rebuttal, detailing his work on “nearly all the organs of the nervous system and on a large number of zoological species.”

From Science News

The short version is that it seems on the one hand zoological and on the other hand reductionist.

From The Daily Beast

Zoological gardens and “wild beast shows” had for him attractions which were quite irresistible.

From Project Gutenberg

He used to look on me, I remember, as an amusing sort of animal out of the Zoological Gardens.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a magnificent bald eagle—the first I had ever seen outside of a zoological garden.

From Project Gutenberg

For thirty years or more he had gone about the hazardous enterprise of supplying zoological gardens and circuses with wild beasts.

From Project Gutenberg

To Jack and Fred he seemed fully four times the size of the largest black bear they had ever seen in any zoological garden.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bodily
• natural