zoologicallyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoologically_adv%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoologically, adv.
Revised 2017

zoologicallyadverb

  1. 1799–
    From a zoological point of view; as regards zoology; by zoological methods.
    1. 1799
      To observe them [sc. birds] alive, describe them zoologically and anatomically; to prepare stuffed skins and skeletons, have been my occupation.
      Philosophical Magazine vol. 2 414
    2. 1819
      The representations of all the animals being brought before Adam in the first instance, and subsequently of their being all collected in the ark..are zoologically impossible.
      W. Lawrence, Lectures on Physiology ii. i. 249
    3. 1845
      This archipelago [sc. the Galapagos Islands],..is zoologically part of America.
      C. Darwin, Journal (ed. 2) xvii. 393
    4. 1914
      I should like the child to be studied zoologically.
      ‘A. Hallard’, translation of ‘P. de Coulevain’, Wonderful Romance iii. 75
    5. a1933
      The little tree-shrews that range from India to Java are not much to look at, but they are extraordinarily interesting zoologically.
      J. A. Thomson, Biology for Everyman (1934) vol. I. xxi. 748
    6. 1991
      Zoologically speaking, spiders are not insects.
      Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 23 November d2
    7. 2008
      A set of zoologically correct replicas of the poisonous snakes of the world that Freddy had received for his fourth birthday.
      P. Klass, Mercy Rule viii. 196

Originally published as part of the entry for zoological, adj. & n.

zoologically, adv. was revised in June 2017.

zoologically, adv. was last modified in July 2023.