conchologist
noun
a scientist specializing in conchology.
conchologists
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pluralof conchologist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Carl Richard Jacobi
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
The Antiquarian Society were twitted as medal-scrapers and antediluvian knife-grinders; conchologists were turned into cockleshell merchants; and the naturalists were made to record pompous histories of stickle-hacks and cockchafers.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Many fossil species formerly referred to this genus, and which have been met with chiefly in marine formations, are now considered by conchologists to belong to Natica and other marine genera.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
