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Today's official word-I-thought-was-invented-by-a-Chinese-coworker-but-turns-out-is-real, brought to you by The 24 Solar Terms:
PHENOLOGY
-noun
the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
[Origin: 1880-85; syncopated var. of phenomenology, with restriction to climatic phenomena]
PHENOLOGY
-noun
the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
[Origin: 1880-85; syncopated var. of phenomenology, with restriction to climatic phenomena]