cereology

== English == === Etymology === From Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”) + -ology. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɪ.ə.ɹɪˈɒ.lə.dʒi/ (General American) IPA(key): /sɪ.ə.ɹɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ Hyphenation: ce‧re‧o‧lo‧gy === Noun === cereology (uncountable) The investigation, or practice, of creating crop circles. 1991, “Editorial notes”, in The Cereologist: The Journal for Crop Circles Studies, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: The Cereologist, OCLC 877349523, page 5; quoted in Gordon Stein, “Crop Circles”, in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996, ISBN 978-1-57392-021-6, page 185, column 1: The result of all this has been to throw the world of cereology into a state of total confusion. All its previous certainties have been demolished. ==== Alternative forms ==== cerealogy ==== Related terms ==== cereologist, cerealogist === Further reading === crop circle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia