sb. pl. [L. pl. of conchylium shell-fish, oyster, a. Gr. κογχύλιον, dim. of κογχύλη = κόγχη: see CONCH.] Shell-fish, CONCHIFERA. Hence Conchyliaceous a., of the nature of molluscous shells, shelly (Worcester, 1846). Conchyliated a., embodied in or derived from shells. Conchyliferous a., conchiferous. Conchyliologist, -ology [F. conchyliologiste, -ologie] = CONCHOLOGIST, -OLOGY. Conchyliometer, -ometry = CONCHOMETER, -OMETRY. Conchyliomorphite, the fossil cast or impression of a shell. Conchylious a., of or belonging to the CONCHYLIA (Smart, 1849).
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. i. § 4 (1622), 177. Oysters, and Muscles, and such other like conchylia.
1867. M. S. Lovell, Edible Molluscs, 132. Violet … being the most vivid of all the conchyliated tints.
1811. J. Parkinson, Organic Rem., III. 49. All other cephalous conchyliferus molluscæ.
1834. Griffith, etc., trans. Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., XII. 291. The octopi also feed on conchyliferous mollusca.
1771. Phil. Trans., LXI. 230. One has hitherto escaped the researches of conchiliologists.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Admiral, in conchyliology, the name given … to a very beautiful … shell.
1781. Mrs. Delany, Corr., Ser. II. III. 4. On being initiated into the science of conchyliology.
1877. Blackie’s Pop. Encycl., II. 485/2. Conchology, or more correctly Conchyliology, no longer holds the place it formerly occupied in science.
1843. Year-bk. Facts, 133. On Conchyliometry.
