Definition of Malacologist

1. Noun. A zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks.

Generic synonyms: Animal Scientist, Zoologist

Definition of Malacologist

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

Definition of Malacologist

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Malacologist

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Malacologist

1. One versed in the science of malacology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malacologist

malacias
malacic
malacissant
malacissation
malacissations
malaco-
malacobdella
malacoderm
malacoderms
malacofauna
malacofaunal
malacolite
malacolites
malacological
malacologies
malacologist (current term)
malacologists
malacology
malaconotid
malaconotids
malacopoda
malacopterygian
malacopterygians
malacopterygii
malacopterygious
malacosis
malacosteon
malacostomous
malacostraca

Literary usage of Malacologist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"and will enable the malacologist instantly to detect an individual of this genus from every other; these characters, allowing for specialty variations, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... should have been corrected to malacologist. I may add that Mr. Beddard spells the title of his volume Zoogeography (without o) as I had written and ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"Dr. Braus is now privat-docent in zoology in the University of Jena. Maurice Chaper, malacologist, died in Paris July 5, 1896. ..."

4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1905)
"1098, 1900), and to a German malacologist to enlighten us on the recent malacological fauna of Gibraltar (see Kobelt, " Studien zor Zoo- geographic," vol. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1901)
"D. The classification of the land snails has an attraction [for the systematic or morphological. malacologist disproportionate to the rank of the group; ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1898)
"One active creative-centre lay, according to this learned malacologist, in South-western Europe, ..."

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