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third-person singular simple present zoologizes, present participle zoologizing, simple past and past participle zoologized
(intransitive) To study zoology, especially by collecting animals to be studied. quotations examples
There it erects tents capable of holding about one hundred and fifty people, and there the members and their friends gather for a fortnight to climb mountains, botanize, zoologize, or merely enjoy life.
1931, Marie Beuzeville Byles, By Cargo Boat & Mountain: The Unconventional Experiences of a Woman on Tramp Round the World, page 141
She is later joined by CK, who delights in the opportunity to zoologize on the sea-shore.
1995, Charles Kingsley, Brian Alderson, The Water-babies, page xxxiv
Broaden your horizons beyond the field that you were trained in so that you resist the ever-present temptation to over-engineer, over-botanize, or over-zoologize the wetlands that you create and restore.
2011, William J. Mitsch, James G. Gosselink, Wetlands
(intransitive) To discuss zoology. quotations examples
The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.
1866, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard, The Eclectic Magazine - Volume 4, page 188
Somehow, wherever Sue was, Ned always seemed in the same vicinity, discussing fiddler crabs or something equally slimy, and they seem likely to zoologize through life together.
1887, The Current - Issues 159-184, page 419