The branch of botany that studies algae.

synonym: phycology.

Roget 369: botany; physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography^†, phytology^†, phytotomy^†; vegetable physiology, herborization^†, dendrology, mycology, fungology^†, algology^†; flora, romona; botanic garden etc. (garden) 371^†; hortus siccus [Lat.], herbarium, herbal.    botanist &c.; herbist^†, herbarist^†, herbalist, herborist^†, herbarian^†.    ... show more

Dutch: fycologie
Polish: fykologia, algologia, fikologia