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Malacologist

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who studies molluscs; a specialist in malacology.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks wordnet

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From malacology + -ist.

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