Definition of "insectology" [in•sec•tol•o•gy]

• The scientific study of insects. (noun)

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• "What would posterity think of us if we had nothing to transmit to it save a complete insectology, an immense history of microscopic animals?"
• "It will include (1) useful insects; (2) their products, raw, and in the first transformations; (3) apparatus and instruments used in the preparation of these products; (4) injurious insects and the various processes for destroying them; (5) everything relating to insectology."