malacology
noun
the science dealing with the study of mollusks.
malacological
-
a word derived from
malacology.
Example Sentences
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This fine fat volume is neither a collector's guide nor a malacological text but, as Photographer Feininger puts it, "a shell-appreciation book."
From Time Magazine Archive
The work of Lamarck is really the foundation of rational natural malacological classification; practically all that came before his time was artificial in comparison.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
