"Oryctognosy" is a word in ENGLISH
Mineralogy.
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One afternoon, a man was riding in the back of his limousine when he saw two men eating grass by the road side. He ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. "Why are you eating grass?", he asked one man. "We don't have any money for food.", The poor man replied. "Oh, come along with me then." "But sir, I have a wife with two children!" "Bring them along! And you, come with me too!", he said to the other man. "But sir, I have a wife with six children!" The second man answered. "Bring them as well!" They all climbed into the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large as the limo. Once underway, one of the poor fellows says "sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you." The rich man replied "No, you don't understand, the grass at my home is about three feet tall!"
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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