malacology

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Ph. D., curator and chairman of malacology (the study of mollusks) and an evolutionary biologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who already has developed a biotic database documenting more than 25,000 species of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks.

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  1. noun The branch of zoology that deals with mollusks.

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  • Ph. D., curator and chairman of malacology (the study of mollusks) and an evolutionary biologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who already has developed a biotic database documenting more than 25,000 species of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks. —  biopact
  • If you speak of an acanthopterygian, it is plain that you are not discussing perch in reference to its roasting or boiling merits; and if you make an allusion to monomyarian malacology, it will not naturally be supposed to have reference to the cooking of oyster sauce. —  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
  • I had judged advisable to sketch, with the able assistance of learned friends, its history and geography; its ethnology and archaeology; its zoology and malacology; its botany and geology. —  The Land of Midian — Volume 1
 

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  1. French malacologie, contraction of malacozoologie, from New Latin Malacozōa, a classification that includes mollusks : Greek malakos, soft; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots + New Latin -zōa, pl. of -zōon -zoon.

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  1. = French malocologie; from Greek μαλακός, soft (later μαλάκια, soft-bodied animals without external shells or articulated bones: cf. mollusk), + -λογία, from λέγειν speak: see -ology.
 

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/mæləˈkɑlədʒi/
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