agrostology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄγρωστις (ágrōstis, “grass”), from ἄγρωστης (ágrōstēs, “farmer”), from ἀγρός (agrós, “field”) + λόγος (lógos, “study, speech, reason”).

Noun

agrostology (uncountable)

1. 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.

Coordinate terms

• agrostography

 

Derived terms

• agrostologic
• agrostological
• agrostologist
• paleoagrostology

 

Translations

study of grasses

• French: agrostologie f
• Greek: αγρωστολογία f (agrostología)
• Khmer: តិណជាតិវិទ្យា (teʔnaʔcietvityie)
• Portuguese: agrostologia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: агростоло̀гија f

  Roman: agrostològija (sh) f