cerealogy

English

Etymology

From cereal +‎ -logy.

Noun

cerealogy (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of cereology
   • 2001, Eltjo Haselhoff, The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles: Scientific Research & Urban Legends, page xv:

     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.

   • 2002 August 12, “Cereal offenders who won't go away”, in Christian Science Monitor:

     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.

   • 2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 57:

     Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

Derived terms

• cerealogist