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malacologists

malacologists is the plural of malacologist.

Meaning of malacologist

Noun

malacologist (plural malacologists)

  1. A person who studies molluscs; a specialist in malacology.
    • In the early 1800s the French malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort published an account of a British ship of the line that he claimed had been sunk, and its crew devoured, by a Colossal octopus, or Kraken.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 233

Questions about malacologists

What is malacologists the plural of?
Malacologists is the plural of malacologist.

Words near malacologists in the dictionary

  1. malacoid
  2. malacolite
  3. malacolites
  4. malacological
  5. malacologist
  6. malacologists
  7. malacology
  8. malaconotid
  9. malaconotids
  10. malacophagous
  11. malacophagy

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