Con-chōl'o-gy, n.

noun

(kŏn-kŏl'o-jĭ), n. [Fr. conchologie, from Gr. κόγχη, shell, and λόγος, discourse, from λέγειν, to speak.] The doctrine or science of shells and the animals that inhabit them; malacology. See MOLLUSK. Dana.