[ noun ] the branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits <noun.cognition>
Pomology \Po*mol"o*gy\, n. [L. pomum fruit + -logy: cf. F. pomologie.] The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.
"None of the new techniques will substitute for maintaining the proper temperature," cautions Adel Kader, professor of pomology, or the study of fruit crops, at the University of California at Davis.