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/ˌɔːnɪˈθɒlədʒi/ · noun
The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds..
Gesner says in his Ornithology, that this fact was attested by a great many moderns of his own time, and he even quotes Albert the great, who asserts that he has seen a cock foster chickens.
Jerome A. Jackson, an ivory bill specialist at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, has now increased the intensity of the discussion in a 15-page article in the current issue of The Auk, a quarterly ornithology journal published by the American Ornithologists' Union.
Use ornithology when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ornithology means The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds..
Common synonyms include birdlore, fowl-lore.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Gesner says in his Ornithology, that this fact was attested by a great many moderns of his own time, and he even quotes Albert the great, who asserts that he has seen a cock foster chickens.
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