Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The scientific study of spores and pollen.
Wiktionary
- n. The scientific study of spores, pollen and particulate organic matter in rocks.
Etymologies
- Greek palunein, to sprinkle + -logy.
Examples
“Keywords you might want to look up: paleoclimatology, ostracodes, palynology.”
“She is now a professor emeritus of botany in the Biology Department at the University of Washington, with a distinguished career as a paleobotonist specializing in palynology, the study of fossil pollen.”
“Studies of meteorology and palynology have been undertaken.”
“The general evidence from vegetation types and changes as indicated in pollen studies palynology is a period of warmer winters, indeed some argue the warmest in post glacial times.”
“Long distance transport of wind blown pollen into areas of low pollen productivity such as arctic tundra is a well known problem in palynology.”
“Pollen analysis, or palynology, is a powerful technique for determining past climatic conditions, because—as any gardener knows—most plants and trees are fussy about things like temperature, sunlight, and water.”
“She directs the annual surveys in this region and closely cooperates with specialists in remote sensing, geomorphology and palynology to reconstruct landscape evolution throughout the centuries.”
“The palynology and sedimentology of these deposits are studied by M. Vermoere and S.”
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“I wrote about goings-on in ichthyology, herpetology, four different archaeology departments, a Lepidoptera center and of course, vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology - oh, and ornithology, palynology and paleobotany too!”
“Adams-Groom is the NPARU's chief palynologist (palynology is the study of pollen).”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘palynology’.
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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Pet Rocks and Carbon Footprints
Soil samples for stone soup.
palynology, stratigraphy, tse'bit'ai, tse bitai, tse bit ai, bitai, minette, maar, lithosphere, peridotite, gneiss, gabbro and 115 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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Nouns
ability, man, tree, apple, computer, chip, sheep, word, letter, light, dog, cube and 61 more...

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