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herpetology

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My first encounter with cricket farming was in in my high school herpetology club with our cricket tank.

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The branch of biology dealing with reptiles (Reptilia) and amphibians (Amphibia).

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noun

The branch of biology dealing with reptiles (Reptilia) and amphibians (Amphibia).

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Core meanings and parts of speech for herpetology.

noun

The branch of biology dealing with reptiles (Reptilia) and amphibians (Amphibia).

Example sentences

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My first encounter with cricket farming was in in my high school herpetology club with our cricket tank.

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The reason he was so good at herpetology is because he was raised with dangerous reptiles.

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I also briefly talked with a person who maintains the herpetology exhibits at a museum.

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Sure,,,if you wanted to make Gattaca - Herpetology Edition.

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~ Snakes in an Aboriginal world-view, Herpetology in Australia, 1993 Snakes and spiders here are not unknowns, they're everyday creatures, unlike (at that time and place) cats.

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> particularly of those small, fast elusive ones you barely glimpse How is taxonomy going to help you if you don't get enough identification time and don't have enough herpetology to identify the snake's species and genus in the first place?

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So, if you typed in "python" you would see a clustermap of results that included a bunch of herpetology in that cluster and a bunch of computer science in that cluster, etc.

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How do you use herpetology in a sentence?

My first encounter with cricket farming was in in my high school herpetology club with our cricket tank.

What does herpetology mean?

The branch of biology dealing with reptiles (Reptilia) and amphibians (Amphibia).

What part of speech is herpetology?

herpetology is commonly used as noun.