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conchologist

NOUN
  1. a collector and student of mollusc shells

How To Use conchologist In A Sentence

  • We have much pleasure in naming this noble Physa after Dr. Newcomb, the distinguished American conchologist, who has contributed so much, by his researches in the Sandwich Islands, to our knowledge of the genus Helicter or Achatinella. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
  • A self-proclaimed master in the art of harnessing the energy of crystals, Kanti says he is also a respected numismatist (a student of money), chromotherapist (a color healer) and conchologist (a shell collector). The Fruit Hunters
  • Charles became well-known as a botanist and conchologist.
  • The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few shells. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
  • The nine civilians on the expedition included two artists, two botanists, a conchologist, a geologist, two naturalists, and a philologist.
  • Incidentally, this appears to be the scan of the personal copy of the American malacologist conchologist? Not so modern conchology, but fully digitized nevertheless
  • His wife, Carrie, was the daughter of John Ford, a well-known conchologist connected with the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
  • The conchologist was probably John Warren, described by Dall as a stout, florid, old Englishman who dealt in shells and curios.
  • Though certain species of molluscs have their respective habitats, and that which is considered rare in one part may be common in another, there are few which have not a general interest for the scientific conchologist. My Tropic Isle
  • The next day found us again installed at our old quarters in Palermo, where, during our brief remaining stay, we visit a conchologist, before which event we had no notion that Sicily was so rich in shells. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
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