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Etymology

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From cereal +‎ -logy.

Noun

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cerealogy (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of cereology
    • 2001, Eltjo Haselhoff, The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles: Scientific Research & Urban Legends, page xv:
      There is no university with a department of cerealogy, and consequently anyone may call him- or herself a "cerealogist," even after one single visit to a crop circle.
    • 2002 August 12, “Cereal offenders who won't go away”, in Christian Science Monitor:
      Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.
    • 2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 57:
      Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

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