noun

• The branch of botany concerned with seaweeds and other algae.

  ‘Our allegiances are divided between protozoology, phycology, parasitology, mycology, protistology, plant pathology and myriad other professional societies and their journals.’

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  • ‘In brief, applied phycology could mimic the technology of crop science, but it could not deliver somatic hybrids with stable, desired genomes.’
  • ‘From the point of view of phycology, oak trees are just a peculiar form of green algae.’
  • ‘You are of course aware of my phycology degree?’