mazology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μαζός (mazós, breast) + -logy.

Noun

mazology (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Mammalogy.
    • 1837, Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers, volume 6:
      In the history of Mazology, we find clear distinctions laid down from comparative anatomy between man, and that order of mammalia which bears the strongest resemblance to the human race, the ape and monkey tribes.
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