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Mineralogist

Mineralogist \Min`er*al"o*gist\, n. [Cf. F. min['e]ralogiste.]

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

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A carrier shell ( Phorus).

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mineralogist

n. A person expert in mineralogy.

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mineralogist

n. a scientist trained in mineralogy

Usage examples of "mineralogist".

The economist and the mineralogist were being held on the deck while the cargo was being brought aboard.

He had been certain from the first that the economist and mineralogist had been brought to Subterranae.

Caulkins, the economist, and the pudgy, fattish form of Cassalano, the mineralogist, passed toward the hollowed trenches where the trinitromite was being placed.

Apparently the mineralogist had been returning to make doubly sure the charge of trinitromite had been properly placed.

Homer Pearson Caulkins, the economist, and Salvatore Umbrogia Cassalano, the mineralogist, appeared.

He has a face of that rubicund, knobby type I have heard an indignant mineralogist speak of as botryoidal, and about it waves a quantity of disorderly blond hair.

Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them.

Martian mineralogist, made a harsh cawing in his gray-feathered throat.

Patton, are a professional mineralogist, sent here at enormous cost to do a specific job your Federation wants done.

Croesus, in Pall Mall--when, near Burlington House, whom should we happen to knock up against but Sir Adolphus Cordery, the famous mineralogist, and leading spirit of the Royal Society!

Now Cousin Benedict was, in no sense, a botanist, nor a mineralogist, nor a geologist.

Penakh Ayef has a small settlement, of mineralogists and their families.

There are plenty of available dwellings, for all of us to occupy, due to the lower number of mineralogists present.

They would stand for the mines, as you and the mineralogists would stand for science.

Astronomers and mineralogists were astounded and upset by the rocks our astronauts scooped up ofi the surface of the moon, because they indicated that the moon was four billion years old or even older, and it may be even older than the Earth itself.