conchologistn.
/kɒŋˈkɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /kɑŋˈkɑlədʒəst/ a. One versed in, or a student of, conchology; a scientific collector of shells.
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1784 F. Martyn (title) The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known Shell.
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 344 The researches of the comparative anatomist and conchologist.
1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 13 The conchologist, as he was termed, might have..a large collection of valuable shells, without the least idea of the form..habits, or development of the creature that secreted them.
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b. A name given to the carrier-shell molluscs (see carrier n.1 Compounds 3), from their habit of attaching other shells, stones, etc., to their own shells.
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