uranology

From urano- +‎ -ology.

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uranology (usually uncountable, plural uranologies)

1. (obsolete) The study of the heavens and heavenly bodies.
2. (astronomy, geology) The scientific observation and study of the planet Uranus.

• uranological

• planetary science
• selenology
• areology
• geology

• “uranology”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “uranology”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes V (Simular–Z), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.