Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The special branch of botany or of horticulture which relates to orchids.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The branch of botany which treats of orchids.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The study of orchids.

Etymologies

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From orchid +‎ -ology.

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Examples

  • The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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