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micropalynology

micropalynology noun: the study of pollen traces.

Noun

micropalynology (uncountable)

  1. The study of pollen traces
    • To date, comparisons of micropalynology and metagenetics indicate that the latter is effective in identifying pollen sources, but read counts may not be consistently related to visual counts.2015 December 24, “Taxonomic Characterization of Honey Bee ( Apis mellifera ) Pollen Foraging Based on Non-Overlapping Paired-End Sequencing of Nuclear Ribosomal Loci”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of micropalynology

From micro- + palynology.

Questions about micropalynology

What does micropalynology mean?
Micropalynology means the study of pollen traces.
What part of speech is micropalynology?
Micropalynology is a noun.

Words near micropalynology in the dictionary

  1. micropaleontological
  2. micropaleontologically
  3. micropaleontologist
  4. micropaleontologists
  5. micropaleontology
  6. micropalynology
  7. micropalæontologic
  8. micropalæontologist
  9. micropalæontologists
  10. micropalæontology
  11. micropander

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