Groups and collections
Synonyms for zoology
The synonym for zoology recorded in this bank is fauna, in the sense "all the animal life in a particular region or period". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for zoology
- faunanoun, in the sense "all the animal life in a particular region or period"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and zoology carries one sense so far.
all the animal life in a particular region or period
The zoology of the Pliocene epoch.
The true synonym
fauna
Same sentence, swapped: The fauna of the Pliocene epoch.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- flora
- smorgasbord
- caboodle
Where zoology turns up in the game
zoology is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where zoology is the trap
- caboodlenoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is lot, in the sense "any collection in its entirety", and zoology is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play zoology
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so zoology reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because groups and collections is the company zoology keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. zoology carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.