[f. FUNG-US + -(O)LOGY.] The science or study of fungi. Hence Fungological a. [+ -IC + -AL], of or pertaining to fungology. Fungologist [+ -IST.], one who studies or is learned in fungology.
1860. Berkeley (title), Outlines of British Fungology.
1865. Athenæum, No. 1980. 463/3. A philanthropic fungologist.
1882. Gard. Chron., XVIII. 15 July, 73/2. the seeker after fungological knowledge finds himself (especially if he cannot read Russian, Polish, and Hungarian, as well as French, German, and Latin) hopelessly aground.
1885. Gray, Lett. (1893), 769. Harkness … is absorbed in fungology.
1885. Leeds Mercury, 26 Aug., 3/2. The fungologist may not be altogether unwilling to part with a group which has always been a source of some perplexity to him.
