Cryptic crossword clue
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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word LEXICOLOGY

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What does LEXICOLOGY mean?

LEXICOLOGY noun
  1. The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
  2. A specific theory concerning the lexicon.

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