How to Use mycology in a Sentence

mycology

noun

• Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet, born on this day in 1838, devoted a large chunk of his life to mycology–the study of fungus.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
• The Last of Us, a professor of mycology is eating lunch in a Jakarta restaurant when two military types whisk her away mid-bite.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• That is the terrifying experience of those who decide to forage for wild mushrooms in the US without expertise in mycology.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
• The majority of Tabibi’s education has come from the internet and brief studies of medicinal mycology at the University of Texas at Dallas.
  — Dallas News, 6 July 2022
• The sudden interest in at-home mycology, specifically, seems to have a particular resonance with our times.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
• Pieces from Joynoëlle’s 2017 collection, Fungi: Beauty from Decay, explores the world of mycology and nature’s ability to create new life from decomposition.
  — Nancy Ngo, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2017
• Although his passion for mycology was sparked by his own experiences with psilocybin mushrooms as a young man, Stamets no longer advocates casual use of hallucinogens.
  — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
• In the 20th century, a new scientific understanding of fungi gave rise to a high-yield industry, but mycology and mushroom cultivation remained an obscure niche.
  — Joanna Steinhardt, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
• For most of its history, mycology has been overlooked and understudied, relegated to the shadows of botany and microbiology.
  — Joanna Steinhardt, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
• Lovett and his co-author, Matthew Kasson, an associate professor of plant pathology and mycology, first discovered the psychoactive compounds in cicadas infected with Massospora last year.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 31 July 2020
• Yet even science came late to their study, and mycology remains a relatively underfunded backwater whose acolytes conduct their investigations in basement laboratories far from the gleaming halls of the more prominent disciplines.
  — Richard Schiffman, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• After completing his Ph.D in mycology and plant physiology, Brock worked for a few years in the pharmaceutical industry, specializing in microbiology and molecular biology.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024