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

  • noun The branch of botany that deals with algae.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That department of botanical science which treats of algæ or seaweeds; algology.

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

  • noun The science of algæ, or seaweeds; algology.

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

  • noun The scientific study of algae.

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

  • noun the branch of botany that studies algae

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Examples

  • As for phycology, sociology and Religious notes and all taht crap.

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  • But to a large circle of friends, most of whom have gone before her, she was best known as a naturalist in the special department of phycology.

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  • His history stuff is a grain of salt kind of thing but his philosophy on phycology, ego, and consiousness are spot on.

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  • I like what you said it sound neutral and make a very good sounds to me this dean guy is doing reverse phycology. from the write

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  • Fog is merely very low clouds and reverse phycology doesn't work on schizophrenics so why not just say that you're surprised that AP defended Palin … oh wait .. you are that person who writes satire … whereby anything goes as long as somebody other than you is laughed at.

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  • I also got a child phycology book and it had several small tables showing various details for certain ages of children and again, I couldn't view it on the kindle.

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  • Now i wish to do any MPhil course or short term diploma course in human phycology?

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  • For that one we have to scrap our exhilarating mini-lecture on Greek roots, but it never did much for phycology, either.

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  • c. phycology: algue d. entomology: insects e. biology: botany Ans: (e) Explanation: In all other pairs, first is the study of the second.

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  • ok, so im 13 i answer all my answers in the phycology section of yahoo answers i do reserch and know alot about it to (at least for my age group) and maybe a litttle more than i should about phycology

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