teratology (teratoloji)

[F. tératologie. Teratology is when bold Writers, fond of the sublime, intermix something great and prodigious in every Thing they write, whether there be Foundation for it in Reason or not, and this is what is call'd Bombast. Bailey , 1727. 2. In an at ., zoöl ., and bot ., the science of animal or vegetable monstrosities; that department of biology which treats of malformations, or monstrous or abnormal growths, in the animal or the vegetable kingdom. teratoma (ter-a-tō'mä), n.; pl. teratomata (-matä). [NL.,