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Mineralogist   Listen
noun
Mineralogist  n.  
1.
One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
2.
(Zool.) A carrier shell (Phorus).





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"Mineralogist" Quotes from Famous Books



... researches of the naturalist and mineralogist the Seven Mountains offer inexhaustible resources. The living and accommodation of the three hotels are very reasonable. For one and a half florins you have an excellent and plentiful dinner at the table d'hote, including ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye
... hundred years ago, warmly welcomed "the remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist and mineralogist," as "proper objects of the poet's art," declaring that "if the time should ever come when what is now called 'science,' thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, ...
— Inquiries and Opinions • Brander Matthews
... moved 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 joking with him about the gadflies and hornets ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor


Words linked to "Mineralogist" :   scientist, mineralogy


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