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How to pronounce bryology

American English pronunciation

bry-OL-uh-jee

IPA
/bɹaɪˈɑlədʒi/
Syllables
bry · OL · uh · jee (4 syllables, stress on the 2nd)

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What bryology means

noun

The study of mosses and their kin

In a sentence: Her love of bryology meant she knelt by every mossy rock on the trail.

Where it comes from: It joins bryo-, from a Greek word for moss, with -logy, meaning the study of something.

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