crustaceologyn.
/krʌˌsteɪʃɪˈɒlədʒi/, U.S. /krəˌsteɪʃiˈɑlədʒi/ Zoology.
The branch of zoology that deals with crustaceans.
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the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > testaceous animals > crustaceans
crustaceology1817
malacostracology1847
carcinology1853
1817 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. Nov. 41/1 The former names, Crustaceology and Gammarology, both being erroneous, the first being half Latin and half Greek.
1835 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 326 His well-known acquirements in crustaceology put the question of its being at all events a species of land Crab to rest.
1853 W. Macgillivray Conchologist's Text-bk. (ed. 7) 14 Conchology, or the study of shells, has been sometimes confounded with Crustaceology, or that of Crabs.
1965 Chesapeake Sci. 6 183/1 The large zooplankton collection accumulated was made available to the Crustaceology section of the Institute.
1999 C. Pellegrino & G. Zebrowski Star Trek: Next Generation: Dyson Sphere 233 He has been known to work simultaneously in crustaceology, paleontology..and marine archaeology.
Derivatives
crustaceoˈlogical adj. rare of or relating to crustaceology.
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1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Crustalogy Who can endure such words as crustaceological?
1843 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 35 95 We completely break down this only objection, a circumstance which must now entirely decide the question as to the crustaceological character of the Cirriped.
crustaceˈologist n. an expert or specialist in crustaceology.
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the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > testaceous animals > crustaceans > one who
crustaceologist1835
carcinologist1853
1835 Mag. Nat. Hist. 8 486 This is the opinion of a crustaceologist.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xiii. 237 A fresh and inviting field to the crustaceologist.
1991 Jrnl. Crustacean Biol. 11 342/2 A goal of the meeting is to bring together crustaceologists from Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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