The study of preserved pollen remains, which may give information on the environment surrounding a site.
The study of organic-walled microfossils such as pollen and spores as well as their living counterparts, as distinguished from micropaleontology. This was originally developed from and is occasionally used in a more restrictive sense to refer to pollen analysis. See Jansonius and McGregor (1996).
( Hyde and Williams, 1944) The study of pollen grains and spores and of other biological materials that can be studied by means of palynological techniques. Comment: A number of subdisciplines may be recognised, including palaeopalynology, aeropalynology, melissopalynology and pollen analysis.
The study of fossil pollen.
Generally the study of all acid-insoluble organic material extracted from sedimentary rocks by acid solution techniques (see also palynomorphs), though more specifically concerned with the study of spores and pollen.
The study of pollen, living and fossil.
The study of palynomorphs and other acid-resistant microfossils usually produced by plants, protists, and fungi
the scientific study of pollen.
scientific study of pollen, pollen stratigraphy, paleobotany, and paleoclimatology of plants.
A branch of science dealing with pollen and spores.
Palynology is the science that studies contemporary and fossil palynomorphs, including pollen, spores, dinoflagellate cysts, acritarchs, chitinozoans and scolecodonts, together with particulate organic matter (POM) and kerogen found in sedimentary rocks and sediments.
