vermeology

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Etymology

Ancient Greek

Noun

vermeology (uncountable)

1. (rare, obsolete) The study of worms.
   • 1883, Richard Smith Elliott, Notes Taken in Sixty Years, page 145:

     Everybody was deep in arboriculture and vermeology; and what we did not know about mulberry trees for feeding silk worms was not worth knowing; and what we did not know about worms, and 'the diet of worms,' and cocoons, and reeling of fibre, and weaving of silk and satin could not be learned.