| 单词 |
malacology |
| 释义 |
malacology|mæləˈkɒlədʒɪ|
[a. F. malacologie (De Blainville 1825, who says that it is short for malacozoologie), f. Gr. µαλακό-ς soft + -logy.]
The science which treats of the formation and habits of soft-bodied animals or molluscs.
1836Blackw. Mag. XXXIX. 306 We have also seen your book upon shells, or rather upon malacology. 1857Wood Com. Obj. Sea Shore 14 This branch of Natural History has leaped at once out of the mere childish toy of conchology into the maturer science of malacology.
b. humorously. The substance of a mollusc.
1854Badham Halieut. 38 Men took a great pride..in fattening their different coquillages, not so much..with a view to the increase of the malacology within, as to produce enormous shells. 1855Fraser's Mag. LI. 548 Sometimes after mousing a snail till it has put its head out..they fly at and peck off a little mouthful of its malacology.
Hence malacoˈlogical a., pertaining to malacology. malaˈcologist, one versed in malacology.
1847–54Webster, Malacologist. 1881Amer. Naturalist Sept. 704 Papers bearing on malacological topics. 1895Edin. Rev. Oct. 358 The recently instituted Malacological Society of London. Ibid., A malacologist is concerned first with the molluscous animal. |
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