echinologyn.
/ɛkɪˈnɒlədʒi/ The study of Echinoids.
ΚΠ
1870 T. Wright Echinodermata I. iii. 125 (note) I have printed this paper from the ‘Geologist’ entire (altering the references to figures), as a contribution to British Echinology by my late esteemed friend.
Derivatives
echiˈnologist n. [see -ist suffix] a student of echinology.
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1881 H. W. Macintosh in Nature No. 628. 41 Zoologists in general, and echinologists in particular.
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