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Carcinology

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. That department of zoology which relates to crustaceans, or crabs, shrimps, etc. Also called crustaceology and malacostracology.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The department of zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The study of crustaceans.
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning