batology en · NOUN · etymology 1
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “blackberry”) + -ology.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The scientific study of plants in the genus Rubus, commonly known as brambles.
Further knowledge of Rubus plant geography is steadily emerging, particular[ly] as co-workers such as D. Grant and T. Schofield are also contributing substantially to Yorkshire batology.
1999, The Naturalist, volumes 124-127, page 112:In Species Plantarum, in 1753, [Carl] Linnaeus identified two European species of Rubus within the large five-petaled family^([sic]) Rosa, thus beginning one of taxonomy’s largest studies—batology.
2003, the Office for Soft Architecture, “A Common Architectural Decorative Motif in the Temperate Mesophytic Region: Rubus Armeniacus”, in The Clear Cut Future, Astoria, Ore.: Clear Cut Press, →ISBN, page 83:There seems to be a term for just about everything… it turns out there’s even a term for the scientific study of members of the Rubus genus— batology. No, not the study of bats. In exploring batology you’ll find that the most commonly cultivated brambles come from a complex lineage…
2012 July 19, “Rubus Diversity and Obscurity…Batology!”, in The Fruit Nut, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2020:[…]more than another that has always been clearly recognized by British botanists, it is R. leucostachys, in spite of the various forms, which, before they were detected as hybrids, were often a puzzle to our predecessors in British batology.
1905, Berthold Seemann, editor, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign, volume 43, page 202: