zootechnicshttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zootechnics_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezootechnics, n.
Revised 2017

zootechnicsnoun

  1. 1863–
    1. 1863
      The application of the facts furnished by zootechnics, namely, the examples of the races of domestic animals to the study of general anthropology.
      Anthropol. Review vol. 1 303
    2. 1900
      [In] the genus Homo..one can neither speak of the ‘species’, the ‘variety’, nor the ‘race’ in the sense that is usually attributed to these words in zoology or in zootechnics.
      translation of J. Deniker, Races of Man (ed. 2) Introduction 4
    3. 2007
      Darwin's concept of evolution as natural selection was extrapolated from the zootechnics of horses.
      Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia vol. 63 672

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.