conchological
- a word derived from conchology.
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Robert Stuart makes a handsome present of conchological species from foreign localities to be added to my cabinet. 15th.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Born March 24, 1834, at Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, he found himself in 1858 at Wheaton, Illinois, engaged in making a conchological collection for the Illinois State Natural History Society.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton
Oh, for a revival of this extinct conchological comfort!
From The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
To continue our conchological analogy, by the time of the first Punic War Rome and Carthage had each expanded into a shell, and between the two intervened the eastern section of the island of Sicily.
From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph
For, like the story of the dog and the mandrake, it emphasizes the conchological ancestry of these deities and their connexion with the guardians of the subterranean palaces where pearls are found.
From The Evolution of the Dragon by Smith, G. Elliot
