malacology

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌmæ.ləˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
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• General-American: /ˌmæ.ləˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
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• rhymes with -ɒlədʒi
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From French malacologie, contraction of malacozoologie, from the (obsolete) taxonomic name Malacozoa + French -ologie (“-ology”), Malacozoa being in turn from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) + ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”). Equivalent to malaco- + -logy.

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: наука за мекотелите (nauka za mekotelite) — study of molluscs
• Catalan: malacologia — study of molluscs
• Chinese Mandarin: 軟體動物學 /软体动物学 (ruǎntǐdòngwùxué) — study of molluscs
• Dutch: malacologie — study of molluscs
• Finnish: nilviäistutkimus — study of molluscs
• Finnish: malakologia — study of molluscs
• French: malacologie — study of molluscs
• Galician: malacoloxía — study of molluscs
• German: Malakologie — study of molluscs
• Hungarian: malakológia — study of molluscs
• Italian: malacologia — study of molluscs
• Japanese: 軟体動物学 (nantaidōbutsugaku) — study of molluscs
• Korean: 연체동물학 (yeonchedongmulhak) — study of molluscs
• Polish: malakologia — study of molluscs
• Polish: malakozoologia — study of molluscs
• Portuguese: malacologia — study of molluscs
• Russian: малаколо́гия (malakológija) — study of molluscs
• Spanish: malacología — study of molluscs
• Vietnamese: nhuyễn thể học — study of molluscs