Definition of "xenology" []

• The study of alien life. (noun)
• Homology from horizontal gene transfer. (noun)

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• "The command staff and xenology had had the difficult assignment of establishing contact with and screening the conscripts."
• "It would have made for an intriguing case study, if hed been back at the Academy studying xenology."
• "He might never reach the exalted rank of Counselor, but in another ten years or so he could see himself in charge of the entire xenology department, passing judgment on the reports of others and handing out assignments from a spacious office high atop the Science Tower in Denpasar."