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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See phycology.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A branch of botany treating of algæ; phycology.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The branch of botany dealing with algae.
  2. n. The medical treatment of pain as practiced in Greece and Turkey.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) The study or science of algæ or seaweeds.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the branch of botany that studies algae

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek άλγος (álgos, "algo-, pain") -λογία (-logía, "-logy, branch of study") (Wiktionary)
  2. alg(a) + -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. botany
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  1. phycology
  2. ramellose
  1. ramellus
  2. algist
  1. algological
  2. algologist
  1. carpogenic
  2. cryptocarp
  1. favelloid
  2. conjugatæ
  1. fibrocellular

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  1. algiatrist

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  • soaringemu A secondary meaning is "study of pain" (algos=pain). Jul 19, 2009

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