speleology
- n the scientific study of caves
- n the pastime of exploring caves
- Ten Years Under the Earth makes it clear that speleology is no job for a claustrophobe.
- In the process, the Palmers and their colleagues are transforming speleology -- the study of caves -- from an oddball hobby into an extraordinarily fruitful field of scientific .
- To have her scintillating, fire-refined, twice-forged, rapier-like lines from Conversation at Midnight attributed to a bearded, oldster paleobotanist who prates of speleology .