Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CONCH-YL-I-OL'O-GIST, or CONCH-YL-I-OL'O-GY
CONCH-Y-LA'CEOUSCONCH-YL'LI-OUS
CONCH-YL-I-OL'O-GIST, or CONCH-YL-I-OL'O-GY, n. [from L. conchylium, a shell-fish]
are sometimes used as synonyms of the preceeding words; but they are words of inconvenient length, and useless.
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