mycology

The study of fungi. Diverted from the greek word for fungus, mykes.

Pat: What are you going to study at colledge?
Sam: Mycology.
Pat: What's that?
Sam: Something about mushrooms, I'm gonna try jack some shrooms.

by benormous May 5, 2006

Crime against mycology

Any atrocious act that may significantly harm the field of mycology on the short-term or long-term in any act, setting, platform, or medium (e.g., popular media, social platforms, online forums, websites, research papers, identification efforts, foraging, or amateur/hobbyist endeavours). Crimes Against Mycology are particularly prevalent in, but are by no means exclusive to, amateur mycology communities.

Examples are as follows:

1. Making false and/or inaccurate claims that the subject (most commonly a nondescript dark, hard protuberance on any tree) should be identified as 'Chaga' (Inonotus obliquus); often lacking substantiation or basic ID skills or knowledge. 'Chagaslighting'.

2. Overgeneralizing and/or spreading misinformation on edibility or toxicity to (e.g., claiming that "every mushroom is toxic when touched").

3. Identifying a collection "with confidence" in cases in which it can reasonably be assumed that this would be virtually impossible to do with the available information.

4. "Publishing" new species on Index Fungorum.

5. Saying "all mushrooms are edible, once"

6. Pale Satanmints.

7. Unsubstantiated hypersplitting of established genera.

"Counting the equally abused ganodermatoids, the Perenniporia s.l. clade now has forty-nine genera, when it could easily be treated as about seven. The authors don't even mention Ganoderma (s.l.) in this paper. They also neglect to mention three of the seventeen pre-named genera in this clade (Diacanthodes, Flammeopellis, and Megasporia)."
"Holy shit, that's a crime against mycology!"

by Crinoid March 31, 2023

Reverse Macology

Reverse Macology is when you ask a friend to hook you up with someone they know, but they use helping you into helping themselves mac with the person you're interested in.

John: "Bro help me talk to susie shes so cute. "
Mike: "Me and her are mad close bro i got you. "
(Mike to susie)

Mike: "Yeo John thinks you look so good. "
Susie: "No way, like im so ugly."
Mike: "Na, Frfr ur ass is so fat you look so good."
Susie: "Omg you think so fr ??? Why didnt u tell me before. I think ur cute too lets go out."
(Mike to self) "Fuck i just did reverse macology to bro John"

by EazyEli February 24, 2017

mycological

of or pertaining to mushrooms

I would like a slice of pizza of the mycological persuasion.

by eric bendick April 12, 2005

Reverse Macology

Reverse Macology is when you ask a friend to hook you up with someone they know, but they use helping you into helping themselves mac with the person you're interested in.

John: "Bro help me talk to susie shes so cute. "
Mike: "Me and her are mad close bro i got you. "
(Mike to susie)

Mike: "Yeo John thinks you look so good. "
Susie: "No way, like im so ugly."
Mike: "Na, Frfr ur ass is so fat you look so good."
Susie: "Omg you think so fr ??? Why didnt u tell me before. I think ur cute too lets go out."
(Mike to self) "Fuck i just did reverse macology to bro John"

by EazyEli February 24, 2017

Reverse Macology

Reverse Macology is when you ask a friend to hook you up with someone they know, but they use helping you into helping themselves mac with the person you're interested in.

John: "Bro help me talk to susie shes so cute. "
Mike: "Me and her are mad close bro i got you. "
(Mike to susie)

Mike: "Yeo John thinks you look so good. "
Susie: "No way, like im so ugly."
Mike: "Na, Frfr ur ass is so fat you look so good."
Susie: "Omg you think so fr ??? Why didnt u tell me before. I think ur cute too lets go out."
(Mike to self) "Fuck i just did reverse macology to bro John"

by EazyEli February 24, 2017