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crustaceˈology
[See -ology.]
The scientific study of Crustacea. Hence crustaceoˈlogical a., pertaining to crustaceology; crustaceˈologist, one versed in crustaceology.
1828Webster, Crustalogy, that part of zoology which treats of crustaceous animals..Crustaceology, the word sometimes used, is ill-formed..Who can endure such words as crustaceological? 1849tr. Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 409 note, Milne Edwards has not mentioned them in his Review of Crustaceology. Ibid. 408 note, Anomalous animals..which have long perplexed Crustaceologists. 1876Page Advd. Text-bk. Geol. xiii. 237 A fresh and inviting field to the crustaceologist. |