Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of ferns and other pteridophytes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- The science of ferns; a treatise on ferns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That department of botany which treats of ferns.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The scientific study of
ferns and otherpteridophytes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of botany that studies ferns
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek pteris, pterid-, fern (from pteron, feather, wing; see pet- in Indo-European roots) + –logy.]
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From pterido- + -logy.
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