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delphinology (uncountable)

  1. The study of dolphins.
    • 2016, Frank Joseph, Our Dolphin Ancestors: Keepers of Lost Knowledge and Healing Wisdom:
      And yet, only some of the mysteries I wanted to explore lay within the limited purview of delphinology. There were associated spiritual, even paranormal, issues—taboo lines of inquiry shunned by modern science—that were too integrally bound up in the whole enigma for dismissal or avoidance.

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