conchology

American  

[kong-kol-uh-jee] / kɒŋˈkɒl ə dʒi /

noun

1. the branch of zoology dealing with the shells of mollusks.

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conchology British  

/ ˌkɒŋkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl, kɒŋˈkɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. the study and collection of mollusc shells

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Other Word Forms

• conchological
  adjective
• conchologically
  adverb
• conchologist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of conchology

1770–80; conch + -o- + -logy

Example Sentences

If that is the idea, let me recommend the Senate Committee on Conchology to hire somebody else.

From Sketches New and Old, Part 6. by Twain, Mark

Catlow's Popular Conchology; or, the Shell Cabinet arranged according to the Modern System: With a detailed Account of the Animals, and a complete Descriptive List of the Families and Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells.

From First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 by Trotter, Isabella Strange

Come, I venture to give you my word, Never the likes of his logic was heard, Down from Mythology Into Thayology, Troth! and Conchology if he'd the call.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Conchology, then, must be the study of conches.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

He inquired what position I held, and I said I was clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology.

From Sketches New and Old, Part 6. by Twain, Mark