Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science which deals with fungi. More commonly called
mycology .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mycology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The study of
fungi ;mycology .
Etymologies
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fungus + -logy
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Examples
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Fungologists are great enthusiasts, and it may be well to take their prescription _cum grano salis_; but we may qualify Gerard's advice by the well-known enthusiastic description of Dr. Badham, who certainly knew much more of fungology than Gerard, and did not recommend to others what he had not personally tried himself.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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No. 4 names the Toadstool, and the four passages together contain the whole of Shakespeare's fungology, and it is little to be wondered at that he has not more to say on these curious plants.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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