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noun

Mineralogist n.

One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.

(Zool.) A carrier shell (Phorus).

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Etymology of 'Mineralogist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mineralogist" Quotes from Famous Books

... Carwitchet, who laughed at me, and defied me to make her confess or disgorge. I took the pendant to more than one eminent jeweller on pretense of having the setting seen to, and all have examined and admired without giving a hint of there being anything wrong. I allowed a celebrated mineralogist to see it; he gave ...

— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various

... gradually forward, his steed picking his way along the lane, and looking fixedly on the stones with all the sobriety of a mineralogist. He himself was well satisfied with the pace, and told Simplizio to be sparing of the switch, unless in case of a hornet or a gadfly. Simplizio smiled, toward the hedge, and wondered at the condescension of so great a theologian and astrologer, in ...

— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor

... Pacha in the character of a mineralogist beyond Berber, on a quest for gold-mines, arrived at Shendy. He then went with Letorzec to determine the position of the junction of the Atbara with the Nile; and at Assour, not far from 17 degrees N. lat., he discovered the ruins of an extensive ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

Words linked to "Mineralogist" : mineralogy, scientist