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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for August 23, 1999
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pterylology [n. TER-ul-OL-uh-gee]
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If you engage in pterylology then you are studying the arrangement of
feathers on birds, and you are a pterylologist.
Like other sciences, pterylology gets its -ology suffix from the Greek
suffix -logia (the study of). Informally, an ology is a field of
scientific study.
The ptery- prefix is from Greek pteron (feather, wing). That root
has been adopted into words for a wide variety of feathery or
winglike things, including these:
pteridology: ths study of ferns (whose leaves are often feathery)
ornithopter: a machine with wings that flap like a bird's wings
pterodactyl: extinct flying reptile whose wings are supported by long toes
pteropod: sea butterfly, a marine mollusc with winglike lobes on the foot
pteryla: area of a bird's skin from which feathers grow
pteronophobia: fear of being tickled by feathers
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