conchology

conchology

English

Etymology

conch +‎ -ology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

Noun

conchology (usually uncountable, plural conchologies)

1. the study of molluscs and their shells
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 94:

     "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; "the child may be 'father to the man;' but the said father must have had some trouble with his offspring."

   • 2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead:

     The least dreadful among the essays stacked and waiting to be corrected would be that of young Master Jefferson Davis, who when imprisoned by Andrew Johnson in 1866 will ask his physician at Fortress Monroe to procure a few volumes of "conchology, geology, or botany," he desiring to commune with the interests of more innocent days.

2. the hobby of shell collecting

Derived terms

• conchologist

Translations

study of molluscs

Breton: kreginoniezh (br) f Chinese: Mandarin: 貝殼學／贝壳学 (zh) (bèikéxué) Finnish: nilviäistutkimus French: conchyliologie (fr) f Galician: conquilioloxía f German: Conchologie f Italian: concologia f Japanese: 貝類学 (ja) Korean: 패류학 (paeryuhak) Portuguese: conquiliologia f Spanish: conquiliología (es) f Tagalog: dalubkabibihan

shell collecting

Finnish: simpukankuorien keräily

See also

• malacology