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UK
/mˌælɐkˈɒlədʒi/
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NOUN
- the branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks
How To Use malacology In A Sentence
- Conchology and Malacology are the study of the Mollusca.
- Earlier today, while looking up some papers in The Nautilus from 1971, I chanced upon a short article by the late malacologist Dee Dundee titled United States research trends in malacology (85: 67-69; pdf of vol 85). Archive 2009-08-01
- The Museum's malacology collection was started in 1976 when Janke Kolff donated her extensive, personal mollusc collection.
- Need the right expert in freshwater malacology?
- We are continuing our research in this field of cutting edge malacology. Archive 2009-06-01
- Ms. Johnstone was a student of malacology, the study of mollusks, and her focus came palpably through the pages of her guidebook.
- interests are in all things molluscan, ie: shell collecting (recent and fossil), conchology and malacology (study of shells and shellfish), and molluscan ecology and conservation.
- Those were the formative years of malacology when even the broadest classifications of most of the mollusc species were debatable. Archive 2009-01-01
- By the time he died in 1834 he was considered the founder of the study of mollusks in North America (the term "malacology" didn't replace "conchology" until much later, when scientists started to pay at least as much attention to the insides of mollusks as to the more durable shells). Zach Klein Universal Feed
- Smaller numbers attended courses in malariology, malacology, medical entomology, and the clinicopathology of tropical diseases. Thomas H. Weller - Biography