zoonomy

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See also: zoönomy

English

Etymology

zoo- +‎ -nomy

Pronunciation

Noun

zoonomy (uncountable)

  1. (zoology) The laws of animal life, or the science dealing with the phenomena of animal life and their causes and relations.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for zoonomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)