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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRUSTALOGY

n.[L., a shell, Gr. , discourse. ] That part of zoology which treats of crustaceous animals, arranging them in orders, tribes and families, and describing their forms and habits. [Crustaceology, the word sometimes used, is ill-formed, and its derivatives inconveniently long. Who can endure such words as crustaceological? ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CRUSTALOGY

Crus *tal "o *gy (krs-tl "-j ), n. Etym: [L. crusta shell + -logy. ]

 

Defn: Crustaceology.