Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of bryophytes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of mosses, their structure, affinities, classification, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That part of botany which relates to mosses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The study of
bryophytes (non-vascular plants including mosses and liverworts).
Etymologies
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bryo- + -logy
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Ptyxis Ecology: John and Clare O'Reilly have training in ecology, botany, bryology, and molecular biology.
Muti 2009
trivet commented on the word bryology
The study of mosses and worts.
March 6, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word bryology
JM can't cope with the hurley burley of bryology
January 9, 2010