entomology
Entomology is the study of insects. If you want to know all about ants, beetles, and mosquitoes entomology is for you.
From the Greek word for “knowledge,” the suffix -logy literally means “the study of,” and you see it often. Theology is the study of divine beings, anthropology is the study of human cultures, psychology is the study of the mind. Add the Greek prefix entomon, for insect, and you have the branch of biology that focuses on bugs.
-
the branch of zoology that studies insectssynonyms: bugology
- MLA
- APA
- Chicago
entomology / etymology
Vocabulary lists containing entomology
The top 1,000 vocabulary words have been carefully chosen to represent difficult but common words that appear in everyday academic and business writing. These words are also the most likely to appear on the SAT, ACT, GRE, and ToEFL. To create this list, we started with the words that give our users the most trouble and then ranked them by how frequently they appear in our corpus of billions of words from edited sources. If you only have time to study one list of words, this is the list.
Derived from the Greek suffix -logia, the suffix -ology in English means "the science of or the study of."