conchologist

American  

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

noun

• conchologists
  plural

1. a scientist specializing in conchology.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• conchologists
  plural

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conchologist conchologists

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

From Nature ● Oct. 8, 2018

In the eye of a conchologist, they would have been of little value, as all of them were common, and none possessed more than a single valve.

From Journal of an African Cruiser by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Already a conchologist of forty years' standing when he came to the Museum in 1863, he devoted himself to the institution until the day of his death, twenty years later.

From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

The southern shore of Cuba presents much of special interest to the conchologist in the variety and beauty of the sea-shells that abound upon its beaches.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou

The beach was strewn with innumerable shells, some of which would have rejoiced the heart of a conchologist; there were, among others, the phasianella, the terebratual, etc.

From The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 John MacGillivray

A sort of shaving soap used frequently to be advertised under a title which was as complexly adjusted a piece of mosaic work as the geologists or the conchologists ever turned out.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

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 Edward Sylvester Ellis

One of our most learned conchologists is now engaged, in describing, classing, and publishing a drawing of it.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

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