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conchyliology

conchyliology is the dated form of conchology.

Meaning of conchology

Noun

conchology (usually uncountable, plural conchologies)

  1. (usually) The study of molluscs and their shells.
    • "Thank goodness, I am not a child," said Lady Mandeville, turning over a collection of those juvenile tomes, which are to make the rising generation so much wiser than their grandfathers or grandmothers—catechisms of conchology, geology, mathematical questions for infants, geography, astronomy...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 94
  2. (usually) The hobby of shell collecting.

Questions about conchyliology

What is conchyliology the dated form of?
Conchyliology is the dated form of conchology.

Words near conchyliology in the dictionary

  1. conchylaceous
  2. conchyliaceous
  3. conchyliated
  4. conchyliologist
  5. conchyliologists
  6. conchyliology
  7. conchyliometry
  8. conchylious
  9. conchæ
  10. concial
  11. conciator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conchyliology (page history and authors); conchology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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