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mycology

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /maɪˈkɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /maɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
  • rhymes with -ɒlədʒi
  • CMU ARPABET: M AY0 K AA1 L AH0 JH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The study of fungi.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fungology

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the branch of botany that studies fungi and fungus-caused diseases

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: botany, phytology

History

Etymology

By surface analysis, myco- + -logy; diachronically, the term may be naturalized from French or German, from a New Latin form.

Across languages

Translations

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: mikologie — study of fungi
  • Albanian: mikologji — study of fungi
  • Arabic: عَلْم الفَطْرِيَات (ʕalm al-faṭriyāt) — study of fungi
  • Armenian: սնկաբանություն (snkabanutʻyun) — study of fungi
  • Asturian: micoloxía — study of fungi
  • Azerbaijani: mikologiya — study of fungi
  • Bengali: ছত্রাকবিজ্ঞান (chotrakbiggên) — study of fungi
  • Breton: foueoniezh — study of fungi
  • Bulgarian: микология (mikologija) — study of fungi
  • Catalan: micologia — study of fungi
  • Chinese Mandarin: 真菌學 /真菌学 (zhēnjùnxué) — study of fungi
  • Czech: mykologie — study of fungi
  • Danish: mykologi — study of fungi
  • Dutch: mycologie — study of fungi
  • Esperanto: mikologio — study of fungi
  • Esperanto: fungoscienco — study of fungi
  • Estonian: mükoloogia — study of fungi
  • Estonian: seeneteadus — study of fungi
  • Finnish: mykologia — study of fungi
  • Finnish: sienitiede — study of fungi
  • French: mycologie — study of fungi
  • Galician: micoloxía — study of fungi
  • Georgian: მიკოლოგია (miḳologia) — study of fungi
  • German: Mykologie — study of fungi
  • German: Pilzkunde — study of fungi
  • Greek: μυκητολογία (mykitología) — study of fungi
  • Hawaiian: kālaikalina — study of fungi
  • Hindi: कवक विज्ञान (kavak vijñān) — study of fungi
  • Hungarian: gombatan — study of fungi
  • Icelandic: sveppafræði — study of fungi
  • Ido: mikologio — study of fungi
  • Indonesian: mikologi — study of fungi
  • Irish: míceolaíocht — study of fungi
  • Italian: micologia — study of fungi
  • Japanese: 菌類学 (kinruigaku) — study of fungi
  • Korean: 균류학 (gyullyuhak) — study of fungi
  • Northern Kurdish: mîkolojî — study of fungi
  • Northern Kurdish: kivarknasî — study of fungi
  • Latin: mycologia — study of fungi
  • Latvian: mikoloģija — study of fungi
  • Lithuanian: mikologija — study of fungi
  • Low German: Mykologie — study of fungi
  • Macedonian: микологија (mikologija) — study of fungi
  • Malay: kaji kulat — study of fungi
  • Malay: mikologi — study of fungi
  • Manx: fliughane-oaylleeaght — study of fungi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: mykologi — study of fungi
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: mykologi — study of fungi
  • Polish: mykologia — study of fungi
  • Polish: mikologia — study of fungi
  • Portuguese: micologia — study of fungi
  • Romanian: micologie — study of fungi
  • Russian: микология (mikologija) — study of fungi
  • Serbo-Croatian: микологија — study of fungi
  • Serbo-Croatian: mikologija — study of fungi
  • Slovak: mykológia — study of fungi
  • Slovene: mikologija — study of fungi
  • Spanish: micología — study of fungi
  • Swedish: mykologi — study of fungi
  • Swedish: svampkännedom — study of fungi
  • Tamil: காளானியல் (kāḷāṉiyal) — study of fungi
  • Turkish: mikoloji — study of fungi
  • Turkish: mantar bilimi — study of fungi
  • Ukrainian: міколо́гія (mikolóhija) — study of fungi
  • Ukrainian: грибозна́вство (hryboznávstvo) — study of fungi
  • Vietnamese: môn học nấm — study of fungi
  • Vietnamese: nấm học — study of fungi
  • Welsh: mycoleg — study of fungi