Definition of "mycology" []

• The branch of botany that deals with fungi. (noun)
• The fungi native to a region. (noun)
• The composition or characteristics of a particular fungus: the mycology of rusts and mildews. (noun)

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• "Tom Volk, "the rock star of mycology . . . heavily tattooed, with earplugs and blue bangs," and is riveted by his lectures on how visible mushrooms are only the fruiting bodies of vast mycorrizal "root systems," crucial components of subterranean ecology."
• "Brennan Wenck is a graduate student in biology at San Francisco State University, specializing in mycology."
• ""Mushrooms frighten lots of people," says Lynne Boddy, professor of mycology at the University of Cardiff and president of the British Mycological Society."