malacology

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

French malacologie, contraction of malacozoologie, from taxonomic name Malacozoa + French -ologie (equivalent to -ology), Malacozoa being in turn from Ancient Greek μαλακός (“soft”) + ζῷον (“animal”).

Noun

malacology (uncountable)

1. (zoology) the study of molluscs

Translations

study of molluscs

• Catalan: malacologia (ca) f
• Chinese: 軟體動物學 (ruǎntǐdòngwùxué)
• Dutch: malacologie (nl)
• French: malacologie (fr) f
• German: Malakologie (de) f

• Italian: malacologia (it) f
• Japanese: 軟体動物学 (ja) (なんたいどうぶつがく, nantaidōbutsugaku)
• Korean: 연체동물학 (ko) (yeonchedongmurhak)
• Spanish: malacología (es) f

Derived terms

• malacologist
• malacological