batology

1. (botany) The scientific study of plants in the genus Rubus, commonly known as brambles.Examples: "[…]more than another that has always been clearly recognized by British botanists, it is R. leucostachys, in spite of the various forms, which, before they were detected as hybrids, were often a puzzle to our predecessors in British batology."; "Further knowledge of Rubus plant geography is steadily emerging, particular[ly] as co-workers such as D. Grant and T. Schofield are also contributing substantially to Yorkshire batology."; "In Species Plantarum, in 1753, [Carl] Linnaeus identified two European species of Rubus within the large five-petaled family^([sic]) Rosa, thus beginning one of taxonomy’s largest studies—batology."uncountable