Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of biology that deals with fungi.
- noun The fungi found in a region, an organism, or a part of an organism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of fungi, their structure, affinities, classification, etc. Also called
fungology and mycetology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That branch of botanical science which relates to the mushrooms and other fungi.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the study of
fungi , in the wide sense.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of botany that studies fungi and fungus-caused diseases
Etymologies
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Examples
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Brennan Wenck is a graduate student in biology at San Francisco State University, specializing in mycology.
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Tom Volk, "the rock star of mycology . . . heavily tattooed, with earplugs and blue bangs," and is riveted by his lectures on how visible mushrooms are only the fruiting bodies of vast mycorrizal "root systems," crucial components of subterranean ecology.
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Brennan Wenck is a graduate student in biology at San Francisco State University, specializing in mycology.
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"Mushrooms frighten lots of people," says Lynne Boddy, professor of mycology at the University of Cardiff and president of the British Mycological Society.
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Brennan Wenck is a graduate student in biology at San Francisco State University, specializing in mycology.
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Bennett, S.C. Morphological evolution of the wing of pterosaurs: mycology and function. p127-141.
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Her specialist area was mycology and plant pathology – very important in Australia.
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Her specialist area was mycology and plant pathology – very important in Australia.
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Miller: At the moment, I'm on lots of mycology sites on the Internet, trying to decide.
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Bennett, S.C. Morphological evolution of the wing of pterosaurs: mycology and function. p127-141.
trivet commented on the word mycology
The study of fungi.
March 6, 2007