Dictionary of biology (Everyday handbooks, no. 321)

This dictionary, which comprises approximately 12,000 terms, was written to provide students of biology at all levels with a handy and reliable source for the meanings of terms in the field of biology in general and definitions pertinent to the various allied sciences. An effort was made to bring together in a single volume not only commonly used terms but also the more specialized and less frequently employed terms, and in particular new terms which have been introduced and have come into usage with the recent developments of modern biology. The definitions contain material drawn from the fields of zoology, botany, anatomy and physiology, and the various sub-sciences, such as embryology, histology, ecology, limnology, cytology, genetics, endocrinology, and parasitology.