palynology
noun
palynology is a noun meaning “The scientific study of spores, pollen and particulate organic matter in various matrices including the air (pollen counts), crime scenes, and…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-Y-N-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does palynology mean?
noun
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The scientific study of spores, pollen and particulate organic matter in various matrices including the air (pollen counts), crime scenes, and sedimentary rocks.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce palynology?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-palynology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is palynology?
Palynology appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Palynology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense study of spores, pollen etc:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | palynologie |
| German | Palynologie |
| Portuguese | palinologia |
| Spanish | palinología |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does palynology come from?
From palyno- + -logy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).