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Index — Chapter Words Relating to Matter (Part 4 of 24)

    Palèontology.

    Ornithology, Ichthyology, Herpetology, Ophiology, Malacology, Helminthology, Entomology.

  1. The science of plants.
  2. Botany (Substantives), Phytography, Phytology, Vegetable Physiology, Herborisation, Dendrology, Mycology, Pomona.

    (Verbs). To botanise, herborise.

  3. The economy or management of animals.
  4. Cicuration (Substantives), Zohygiastics.3

    Domestication, domesticity.

    Training, breaking in.

    Manège, fishery.

    Menagerie, aviary, apiary, vivarium, aquarium, etc.

    Destruction of animals, Phthisozoics.4

    (Verbs). To tame, domesticate, train, tend, etc., break in.

  5. The economy or management of plants.
  6. Agriculture (Substantives), cultivation, culture, intensive cultivation, husbandry, geoponics, georgics, tillage, gardening, horticulture, forestry, vintage, etc., arboriculture, floriculture, the topiary art.

    Vineyard, vinery, garden, nursery, bed, hothouse, greenhouse, conservatory, orchard, winter garden, pinery, arboretum.

    A husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agriculturist, agriculturalist, forester, farmer, cultivator.

    (Verbs). To cultivate, till, garden, farm.

    (Adjectives). Agricultural, agrarian, arable, pastoral, bucolic, agrestic.

  7. Mankind (Substantives), the human race or species; man, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation; Everyman.
  8. The science of man: Anthropology, Anthropography, Ethnology, Ethnography, Demography, Sociology, Social Economics; Civics.

    Anthropomorphism.

    Human being, person, individual, creature, fellow - creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, someone, a soul, living soul, earthling, party, personage, inhabitant.

    Dramatis personœ.

    People, persons, folk, population, public, world, society, community, the million, nation, state, realm, community, commonwealth, republic, commonweal, polity, nationality; civilised society, civilisation.

    Anthropologist, ethnologist, sociologist, etc.

    (Phrases). The lords of creation; the body politic.