Meanings
nounvermeology (uncountable)
- obsoleterareuncountableThe study of worms.
Everybody was deep in arboriculture and vermeology; and what we did not know about mulberry trees for feeding silk worms was not worth knowing; and what we did not know about worms, and 'the diet of worms,' and cocoons, and reeling of fibre, and weaving of silk and satin could not be learned.
1883, Richard Smith Elliott, Notes Taken in Sixty Years, page 145
Origin
Ancient Greek
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