agrostology
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἄγρωστις (ágrōstis, “grass”), from ἄγρωστης (ágrōstēs, “farmer”), from ἀγρός (agrós, “field”) + λόγος (lógos, “study, speech, reason”).
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agrostology (uncountable)
- The scientific study of grasses.
- Synonym: graminology
- 1986, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century:
- From 1905 to 1936 she collaborated with Albert Spear Hitchcock, a specialist in agrostology, the study of grasses.
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study of grasses
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