Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun allometry

1 sense of allometry

Sense 1
allometry -- (the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole)
       => discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick -- (a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings")