conchologist
Americannoun
plural
conchologistsExample Sentences
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He was the first serious arachnologist and conchologist in Britain, and an expert on viticulture.
From Nature • Oct. 8, 2018
I should like to see a conchologist in a simple costume of shells.
From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Do you know any good conchologist in Northampton who could name it?
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
Such a period of refrigeration is required by the conchologist to account for the prevalence of northern shells in the Sicilian seas about the close of the Pliocene or commencement of the Pleistocene period.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
As a conchologist he was less favoured, and only found a sort of mussel and some bivalve shells.
From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules
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