[f. as prec. + -IST.] One versed in, or a student of, conchology; a scientific collector of shells.
1784. F. Martyn (title), The Universal Conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known Shell.
1830. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., 344. The researches of the comparative anatomist and conchologist.
1857. Wood, Com. Objects Sea Shore, 13. The conchologist, as he was termed, might have a large collection of valuable shells, without the least idea of the form … habits, or development of the creature that secreted them.
b. A name given to the carrier-shell mollusks (see CARRIER 7), from their habit of attaching other shells, stones, etc., to their own shells.
