GRE Word List

ENTOMOLOGY

a branch of zoology that deals with insects

The meaning of the word entomology is a branch of zoology that deals with insects.

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torpora state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
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brawnthe flesh of a boar
promontorya high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water
mingleto bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix
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