单词 | cetology |
释义 | cetology rare.|siːˈtɒlədʒɪ| [f. L. cētus or Gr. κῆτος + -λογία: see -logy.] That part of zoology which treats of the whales. Hence cetoˈlogical a., of or pertaining to cetology; ceˈtologist, one versed in cetology.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick xxxi. 147 To project the draught of a systematization of cetology. 1851Ibid. 179 But I now leave my cetological system standing thus unfinished. 1955Sci. Amer. Jan. 67/1 Some cetologists believe that the gray whale survived along our Atlantic seaboard until historic times. |

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