algologyn.
/alˈɡɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ælˈɡɑlədʒi/ The branch of botany concerned with seaweeds and other algae. Also: the characteristics of an area, habitat, etc. in terms of the algae which inhabit it. Cf. phycology n., algaeology n.
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algology1828
phycology1847
algaeology1854
1828 Foreign Rev. 2 269 The Society..have sent out to Norway two other travellers; one for botany, especially algology, muscology, and lichnology [sic]; the other for oryctognony.
1849 D. Landsborough Pop. Hist. Brit. Seaweeds Pref. 7 British algology is making..rapid progress.
1881 A. B. Hervey Sea Mosses 42 The earliest American worker in the field of algology.
1918 Bot. Gaz. 44 65 Very important contributions will be made to the algology of the Central Pacific region.
1956 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 43 861/2 He has made substantial contributions to plant ecology, algology, and to botanical education at all levels.
2002 L. Margulis & D. Sagan Acquiring Genomes (2003) vii. 96 Cyanobacteria..are studied under phycology (or algology, a branch of botany) rather than bacteriology because they were once misnamed ‘blue-green algae’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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