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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The study of ferns and other pteridophytes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The science of ferns; a treatise on ferns.

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

  • noun That department of botany which treats of ferns.

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

  • noun botany The scientific study of ferns and other pteridophytes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the branch of botany that studies ferns

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek pteris, pterid-, fern (from pteron, feather, wing; see pet- in Indo-European roots) + –logy.]

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From pterido- + -logy.

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