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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who is versed in malacology; a student of mollusks.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who studies molluscs, who specializes in malacology.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One versed in the science of malacology.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks

Etymologies

  1. From malacology +‎ -ist (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Of course, not every malacologist is expected to go to the AMS meetings.”

    Where are all the malacologists?

  • “Call yourself a malacologist and you can't name a slug horror film.”

    Where are all the malacologists?

  • “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).”

    Where are all the malacologists?

  • “Our joint effort, titled Charles Darwin the malacologist, recently got published in the July issue of Mollusc World.”

    Archive 2009-07-01

  • “Paul Callomon (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia): How he and a team of volunteers transported the large collection of the late Japanese malacologist Hideo Katori from Japan to the Academy of Natural Sciences.”

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • “Yesterday I asked about this to the malacologist Carl Christensen of Hawaii.”

    Kahuli

  • “Among the 35 attendees there was one malacologist from Russia and another one from India, making this the first "international" MAM meeting.”

    Bootleg transactions of the 11th MAM meeting

  • “Paul Callomon Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia: How he and a team of volunteers transported the large collection of the late Japanese malacologist Hideo Katori from Japan to the Academy of Natural Sciences.”

    Bootleg transactions of the 11th MAM meeting

  • “The only malacologist who seems to have given serious thought to the subject is Geerat Vermeij.”

    Archive 2008-02-01

  • “This marvelous drawing by my malacologist-artist or, artist-malacologist friend Marla Coppolino came a couple of days ago with her holiday wishes.”

    Snail's greetings

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  • reesetee *was not aware that mollusque is a teacher* May 21, 2010

  • frogapplause ... a student of mollusks. May 20, 2010

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