Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The branch of botany that deals with fungi.
- n. The fungi native to a region.
- n. The composition or characteristics of a particular fungus: the mycology of rusts and mildews.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of fungi, their structure, affinities, classification, etc. Also called fungology and mycetology.
Wiktionary
- n. the study of fungi, in the wide sense.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That branch of botanical science which relates to the mushrooms and other fungi.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the branch of botany that studies fungi and fungus-caused diseases
Etymologies
- myco- + -ology (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Tom Volk, "the rock star of mycology . . . heavily tattooed, with earplugs and blue bangs," and is riveted by his lectures on how visible mushrooms are only the fruiting bodies of vast mycorrizal "root systems," crucial components of subterranean ecology.”
“Mushrooms frighten lots of people," says Lynne Boddy, professor of mycology at the University of Cardiff and president of the British Mycological Society.”
“Brennan Wenck is a graduate student in biology at San Francisco State University, specializing in mycology.”
“Miller: At the moment, I'm on lots of mycology sites on the Internet, trying to decide.”
“Bennett, S.C. Morphological evolution of the wing of pterosaurs: mycology and function. p127-141.”
“Her specialist area was mycology and plant pathology – very important in Australia.”
“Poetic Obituaries: John McLure's science interests ranged through archaeology, botany, biology, entomology, geology, mycology, ornithology and paleontology, with most of these reflected in his writings.”
“With academic credentials in botany and mycology best described as "sketchy," John Bowker Burning Bush Fungus, Encephalitozoon Elysium has often been forced to find employment outside the field as a systems engineer and writer of equally sketchy fiction.”
dangerous flora: an evening of surreal botany at the kgb bar
“I heated some chicken stock on the stove and then dumped the wild mushrooms in it to rehydrate, and as I did so I wondered how skilled my friend was at mycology.”
“I've always wanted to try truffles since I learned about them in my mycology class.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mycology’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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career advisor
interesting -ologies, vocations, etc.
Please cite your chosen career if it doesn't have a weirdnet entry.vexillology, eschatology, pomology, phrenology, astacology, balneology, dactology, mycology, selenology, rhinology, hippology, somnology and 43 more...
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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ologies
technology, zymology, zygology, zoophytology, zoophysiology, zoopathology, zoonosology, zoology, zoogeology, zooarchaeology, xylology, vulcanology and 850 more...
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myco-
relating to fungi
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On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Ma...
Hollis Frampton's choice words
grundriss, festschriften, occident, savante, mycology, nabob, maecenas, zoopraxiscope, palimpsest, tesseract, vorticist, obstreperousness
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edwardhenry's words
ebenezer, stentorian, artesian, hoodie, fine, chiaroscuro, oscillation, macerate, polyamory, adequite, obliterate, pathetic and 41 more...
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trivet The study of fungi. Mar 6, 2007