fungologyn.
/fʌŋˈɡɒlədʒi/, U.S. /fəŋˈɡɑlədʒi/ Now rare.
The branch of science concerned with the study of fungi; = mycology n.
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mycology1836
fungology1860
mycetology1879
1832 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. New Ser. 12 367 Mycologia, the science of the fungi, or (as this term should include the whole of the three just-named departments, although, like Muscologia, it be an hybrid word,) we had rather write Fungologia, the science of the mushrooms or fungi.]
1860 M. J. Berkeley (title) Outlines of British fungology.
1885 A. Gray Lett. (1893) 769 Harkness..is absorbed in fungology.
1906 Haslemere Mus. Gaz. Dec. 337 The student of fungology must..be prepared to master a certain number of learned words.
1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal I. 332/1 The subject of Mycology (Fungology) is of growing importance and is attracting the attention of scientific research.
2006 S. Berger in C. Amini & R. Hutton Before Mortgage 162 Maybe a few of us..could..start birding, or studying mushrooms. What's that called again? Not fungology—something more scientific-sounding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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