malacology. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

malacology

SYLLABICATION:	mal·a·col·o·gy
PRONUNCIATION:	ml-kl-j
NOUN:	The branch of zoology that deals with mollusks.
ETYMOLOGY:	French malacologie, contraction of malacozoologie, from New Latin Malacoza, a classification that includes mollusks : Greek malakos, soft; see mel-¹ in Appendix I + New Latin -za, pl. of -zon –zoon.
OTHER FORMS:	mala·co·logi·cal (-k-lj-kl) —ADJECTIVE mala·colo·gist —NOUN


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