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cerealogy

noun

Etymology

From cereal + -logy.

  1. derived from *ḱer-✻
  2. derived from Cerealis
  3. borrowed from céréale
  4. suffixed as cerealogy — “cereal + logy”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of cereology.

    • There is no university with a department of cerealogy, and consequently anyone may call him- or herself a "cerealogist," even after one single visit to a crop circle.
    • Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.
    • Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cerealogy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA