hexiology
noun
- branch of biology which treats of the development and behaviour of a living creature as affected by its environment
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕξις (héxis, “state or habit”) + -ology. Coined in 1894 by an English naturalist, St. George Jackson Mivart.
- The science dealing with the relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
“Dr. Mivart treats elaborately upon the anatomy, physiology, psychology, taxonomy, and hexicology of the cat […]”