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Definition of Conchologists
1. conchologist [n] - See also: conchologist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conchologists
Literary usage of Conchologists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Geology: With a Theory of the Earth, and an Explanation of Its by John Macculloch (1831)
"Let shells be used as aids, as far as they can : but if strata are to be determined
by shells alone, it will be the land of shells and conchologists that ..."
2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"Such amalgamation will doubtless not be admitted by many conchologists ; but the
examination and careful comparison of an immense number of specimens from ..."
3. An Introduction to Geology: Intended to Convey a Practical Knowledge of the by Robert Bakewell, Benjamin Silliman (1839)
"These variations, I have stated, are much greater in some instances, than the
difference of form in shells, supposed by many conchologists to belong to ..."
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