conchyliology

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONCHYLIOLOGIST, CONCHYLIOLOGY from Latin Conchylium, a shell-fish, are sometimes used as synonyms of the preceding words; but they are words of inconvenient length, and useless.
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