conchologist

American  

[kahng-kahl-uhj-ist] / kɑŋˈkɑl ədʒ ɪst /

noun

• conchologists
  plural

1. a scientist specializing in conchology.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• conchologists
  plural

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He was the first serious arachnologist and conchologist in Britain, and an expert on viticulture.

From Nature ● Oct. 8, 2018

An excitable conchologist would surely have fainted dead away before other, more numerous glass cases in which were classified specimens from the mollusk branch.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.

The middle tertiary of the Loire and Gironde had, according to the specific determinations of the same conchologist, 17 per cent, and formed the Miocene division.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

St. Joseph's Bay has an ample depth of water for sea-going vessels, while its many species of shells make it one of the best points on the northern Gulf coast for the conchologist.

From Four Months in a Sneak-Box by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)

Of all places in the Philippines Cebú will please the conchologist.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

Dentists were interviewed for Local Anaesthetic, stonecutters for The Tin Drum and conchologists for From the Diary of a Snail.

From Time Magazine Archive

See what happens when two conchologists get caught in a necromantic nightmare of their own.

From Made in Tanganyika by Jacobi, Carl Richard

Some conchologists are now unwilling to allow that any Eocene species of shell has really survived to our times so unaltered as to allow of its specific identification with a living species.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

A marshy place, at the mouth of a small stream, was tenanted by a curious wrinkled univalve, with a notch on the outer lip, Amphibola avellana of conchologists.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by MacGillivray, John

Since one of the main objects was scientific research, the expedition was provided with a philologist, naturalists, conchologists, mineralogist, botanist, draughtsmen and a horticulturist.

From Dewey and Other Naval Commanders by Ellis, Edward Sylvester