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CONCHOLOGY

Dictionary entry overview: What does conchology mean?

• CONCHOLOGY (noun)
The noun CONCHOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the collection and study of mollusc shells

Familiarity information: CONCHOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CONCHOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The collection and study of mollusc shells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conchology; shell collecting

Hypernyms ("conchology" is a kind of...):

aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

malacology (the branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks)

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