cerealogy

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Related terms

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• cereology

[edit] Noun

cerealogy (uncountable)

1. The investigation of or practice of creating crop circles.
   • 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, "Cereal offenders who won't go away", Christian Science Monitor, Aug 12, 2002

     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.

[edit] Related terms

• cerealogist