"Oryctognosy" is a word in ENGLISH
Mineralogy.
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It was a particularly tough football game, and nerves were on edge. The home team had been the victim of three or four close calls, and they were now trailing the visitors by a touch-down and a field goal. When the official called yet another close one in the visitors' favor, the home quarterback blew his top.How many times can you do this to us in a single game?" he screamed. "You were wrong on the out-of-bounds, you were wrong on that last first down, and you missed an illegal tackle in the first quarter." The official just stared. The quarterback seethed, but he suppressed the language that might get him tossed from the game. "What it comes down to," he bellowed, "is that you STINK!" The official stared a few more seconds. Then he bent down, picked up the ball, paced off 15 yards, and put the ball down. He turned to face the steaming quarterback. The official finally replied, "And how do I smell from here?"
A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of …
Read the complete definitionA combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.
Read the complete definitionTo go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
Read the complete definitionmineralogía - (Sp. mineralogía) Mineralogy.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
Read the complete definitionAccording to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
Read the complete definitionof Mineralogy
Read the complete definitionOne versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
Read the complete definitionTo study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
Read the complete definitionThe science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
Read the complete definitionA treatise or book on this science.
Read the complete definitionAn old name for mineralogy and geology.
Read the complete definitionThe department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.
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