mycological
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8.2
- adjective
- /ˌmaɪkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
:
micológico
- If you have a taste for mushrooms, the New York Mycological Society, which Cage co-founded, is hosting several events at Cooper Union; Peter Canby previews those festivities in the Talk of the Town this week.
Examples
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The gap between normative cooking, as exemplified by standard cookbooks, and the mycological reality lurking in woods and fields yawns very wide indeed in China.
Academic text (1990) -
-- Hawksworth DL. 1991. The fungal dimension of biodiversity: Magnitude, significance, and conservation. Mycological Research 95: 641-655.
Academic text (2008) -
Membership data for the Mycological Society of America go back to 1980; membership has slightly decreased between 1980 and 1990 despite annual recruitment of students and professionals.
Academic text (1992) -
Specimens for mycological investigations were confirmed by microscopic examinations in 100 cases (4.7%), and the causative agents were isolated and cultured in 84 positive cases (3.9%).
Academic text (2007) -
The mycological research conducted at the university focuses on the medicinal properties of various fungi.
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She attended a mycological conference to learn more about the ecological roles of mushrooms.
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The mycological community is passionate about educating the public on safe mushroom foraging techniques.
Synonyms
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Related to living things like mould or mushrooms
Caused by or like mold that grows on plants
A disease or infection caused by a fungus
Surface Forms
Morphology
mycological = mycology (semi-transparent) = myco + log + ical
The adjective is formed regularly from the specialised noun 'mycology', but the classical combining form makes the meaning less immediately accessible to general learners.
Etymology
The word mycological comes from the Greek root myc- which means 'fungus'. You can see the same root in mycology and mycelium, so mycological means 'about fungi'.