malacologist

English

Etymology

From malacology +‎ -ist.

Noun

malacologist (plural malacologists)

A person who studies molluscs; a specialist in malacology. [from 19th c.]
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 233:
  In the early 1800s the French malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort published an account of a British ship of the line that he claimed had been sunk, and its crew devoured, by a Colossal octopus, or Kraken.

Translations

person who studies molluscs

Chinese:
Mandarin: 軟體動物學家／软体动物学家 (zh) (ruǎntǐdòngwùxuéjiā)
Finnish: nilviäistutkija, malakologi
French: malacologue (fr)
Galician: malacólogo (gl)
German：Malakologe (de) m, Malakologin (de) f
Hungarian: malakológus
Italian: malacologo m, malacologa f
Spanish: malacólogo m, malacóloga f

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