conchology
noun
the branch of zoology dealing with the shells of mollusks.
conchological
-
a word derived from
conchology.
Example Sentences
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I dove into studying the conchological treasures amassed inside the glass cases.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by F. P. Walter
Interesting shells, unknown to the conchological world, are picked up, numbers of which are lying on the pebbly beach.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
Here is a table, conchological, entomological and ornithological, which might stay us a while if we were making a catalogue.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various
If, therefore, the relative ages of the Picardy and Natchez alluvium were to be decided on conchological data alone, the fluvio-marine beds of Abbeville might rank as a shade older than the loess of Natchez.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
In the galleries of the Museum, they viewed the stuffed quadrupeds with amazement, the butterflies with delight, and the metals with indifference; the fossils made them dream; the conchological specimens bored them.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
