Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The description and systematic arrangement of minerals; mineralogy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Mineralogy.
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- noun obsolete
mineralogy
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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This is not the feeling of those who, without confounding descriptive mineralogy (oryctognosy) with geognosy, endeavour to raise themselves to ideas generally interesting, and seek, in the study of nature, for answers to the following questions: —
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This is not the feeling of those who, without confounding descriptive mineralogy (oryctognosy) with geognosy, endeavour to raise themselves to ideas generally interesting, and seek, in the study of nature, for answers to the following questions: --
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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