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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of biology that deals with the study of lichens.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That department of botany which treats of lichens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of lichens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the scientific study of
lichens
Etymologies
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lichen + -ology
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