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cereologist, n.|sɪərɪˈɒlədʒɪst|
Also cerealogist.
[f. the name of the goddess Ceres (see cereal n.) + -ologist.]
One who studies or investigates crop circles.
1990Fortean Times liii. 42 He is a pioneer and leading theorist of the strictly meteorological school of crop circle investigators (or cereologist, from Ceres the goddess of corn). 1990Daily Tel. 27 July 17/5 The news that the latest rash of giant acne in the Wiltshire cornfields is a hoax has done nothing to dispirit some devoted circle spotters who are about to bring out the first edition of the Cereologist. 1993Observer 11 July 64/3 Pity the humble cerealogist. Saddled with the Herculean task of explaining the existence of crop circles.
So cereˈology n.
1990New Scientist 1 Dec. 61/1 The array of experts who have collaborated to found the Centre for Crop Circle Studies and co-author The Crop Circle Enigma, the parents of cereology. 1993Sunday Times 6 June vi. 6/4 In the early days of cereology, a principal attraction of this field of research..was publishers' appetites for sensationalist speculations about the mystery crop formations. |