bryology
noun
bry·ol·o·gy brī-ˈä-lə-jē 
1
: moss life or biology
2
: a branch of botany that deals with the bryophytes
bryological
brī-ə-ˈlä-ji-kəl
adjective bryologist
brī-ˈä-lə-jist
noun 
Word History
Etymology
Greek bryon moss (akin to Greek bryein to grow luxuriantly) + International Scientific Vocabulary -logy
First Known Use
circa 1848, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- Ceredigion
- cerei
- Cerelose
- cerement
- cerements
- ceremonial
- ceremonial law
- ceremonial tea
- ceremonialism
- ceremonialisms
- ceremonialist
- ceremonialists
- ceremonially
- ceremonialness
- ceremonials
- ceremoniarii
- ceremoniarius
- ceremonies
- ceremonies 1
- ceremonious
- ceremoniously
- ceremoniousness
- ceremoniousnesses
- ceremony
- Cerenkov radiation