单词	cereology
释义	cereology /ˌsɪərɪˈɒlədʒɪ / noun [mass noun] The study or investigation of crop circles.The phenomenon has spawned its own science: cereology.... The eccentric Rockefeller - Laurence, that is - has financed further investigations, and now Mel Gibson has done his bit to revitalize cereology, suggesting aliens as the source of the phenomenon. During the dark days from late 1992 to early 1994, when hoaxers and skeptics seemed almost-successful in proving that cereology was but a wild-goose chase for fools, Roland kept the Symposium going. Derivatives cereologist noun ... By the end of the 1980s books on the crop circle phenomenon had begun to spring up as well, and soon circles-mystery enthusiasts were being dubbed cereologists (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of vegetation). They call themselves cereologists, the motley collection of pseudo-scientists, paranormalists and unfulfilled naïfs who have suddenly been thrust into the spotlight by the new movie ‘Signs.’ While the relationship between crop artists and cereologists is uneasy, the relationship between artists and farmers is mutually beneficial. Origin 1990s: from Ceres + -logy.
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