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Webster 1913 Edition

(fī-tŏl′ō̍-jy̆)

Noun.

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Phyto-

-logy

: cf. F.

phytologie

The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany.

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

[Gr. a plant, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise of plants, or the doctrine of plants; description of the kinds and properties of plants.

Pia mater, [L.] in anatomy, a thin membrane immediately investing the brain.

phytology ‎(usually uncountable, plural phytologies)