How to Use mycology in a Sentence

mycology

noun
  • Honoring mycology, honoring light, and the natural world, honoring all of these sports.
    — Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Although this is an expert’s account, grounded in exhaustive interviews with researchers at the forefront of mycology, the language is clear and plain.
    — Jennifer Latner, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • The Last of Us, a professor of mycology is eating lunch in a Jakarta restaurant when two military types whisk her away mid-bite.
    — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The space already hosts mycology meet ups and plans to expand programming to focus more on psychedelic culture and education.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The sudden interest in at-home mycology, specifically, seems to have a particular resonance with our times.
    — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2021
  • It’s packaged with confident wit and vivid, sensory prose (check out that lede), and Rogers finds space to take in a brief history of distillation and a look at the dying art of mycology.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2011
  • Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet, born on this day in 1838, devoted a large chunk of his life to mycology–the study of fungus.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
  • That is the terrifying experience of those who decide to forage for wild mushrooms in the US without expertise in mycology.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Although his passion for mycology was sparked by his own experiences with psilocybin mushrooms as a young man, Stamets no longer advocates casual use of hallucinogens.
    — Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
  • For most of its history, mycology has been overlooked and understudied, relegated to the shadows of botany and microbiology.
    — Joanna Steinhardt, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • In the 20th century, a new scientific understanding of fungi gave rise to a high-yield industry, but mycology and mushroom cultivation remained an obscure niche.
    — Joanna Steinhardt, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Psychedelic mushrooms and other drugs were forbidden topics of discussion in both academic and amateur mycology circles because of the attached stigma, Bunyard said.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The yeasts—species of Phenolifera, Glaciozyma, Goffeauzyma, and Mrakia, for the mycology fans—turned up on Ötzi’s skin, in his stomach, and in water sampled from inside his body.
    — ArsTechnica, 6 June 2026
  • Matt Kasson is an associate professor of mycology and plant pathology at West Virginia University.
    — Matt Kasson, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The majority of Tabibi’s education has come from the internet and brief studies of medicinal mycology at the University of Texas at Dallas.
    — Dallas News, 6 July 2022
  • Ibu Ratna, professor of mycology (the study of fungi) at the University of Indonesia, sees her lunch interrupted by military personnel.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Programming will explore the connection between beauty and wellness, covering subjects such as ingredient literacy, longevity science and mycology.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Yet even science came late to their study, and mycology remains a relatively underfunded backwater whose acolytes conduct their investigations in basement laboratories far from the gleaming halls of the more prominent disciplines.
    — Richard Schiffman, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • Nothing goes to waste at the Funga Farm The Funga Farm is an urban mycology lab trying to prove that food production can be thousands of times more efficient than traditional agriculture.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
  • Castaneda, Marshall writes, made an end run around the department’s Yaqui expert, with the other committee members overly impressed by his au courant melange of fieldwork and gauzy ruminations, despite the fact that his timelines and grasp of mycology didn’t make sense.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • Lovett and his co-author, Matthew Kasson, an associate professor of plant pathology and mycology, first discovered the psychoactive compounds in cicadas infected with Massospora last year.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 31 July 2020
  • The mistake people outside the fungi community or beginners make when identifying mushrooms is solely relying on social media, a field guide or an app like iNaturalist, said Bob Cummings, a leading mycology expert in Santa Barbara.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2026

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