mycologistn.
/mʌɪˈkɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /maɪˈkɑlədʒəst/ Biology.
An expert in or student of mycology.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > one who studies
mycologist1830
the world > plants > botany > [noun] > study of specific parts or types of plants > fungi > one who
fungologist1821
mycologist1830
1830 R. K. Greville Algæ Britannicæ 179 This name, however, had been long before given to a genus of Fungi by Hoffmann, and..is now resumed by modern mycologists.
1888 Philos. Trans. 1887 (Royal Soc.) B. 178 305 Schwendener..considers a lichen as a combination of a fungus and an alga, an idea..numbering amongst its opponents most of the leading lichenologists and mycologists of the day.
1903 Westm. Rev. Nov. 2/1 The Director..is a botanist; the Assistant-Director..is a mycologist.
1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens ii. 33 The definition of the term stroma, however, has not yet been settled even among mycologists.
1996 Ecol. Applic. 6 756/1 Mycologists studying old-growth deciduous forests have found a great number of wood-decaying macrofungi that are not seen elsewhere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1830