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mineralogist|mɪnəˈrælədʒɪst|
[f. mineralogy + -ist.]
1. One who is versed in or studies mineralogy.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. 49 Yet are there also many Authors that deny it, and the exactest Mineralogists have rejected it. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 429 The patrons of church livings,..would naturally, like King Charles, desire that his spiritual pastor might be a good chymist, a good mineralogist, and a good botanist. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 139 The number of simple minerals actually recognised by mineralogists does not exceed a few hundreds. 1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 33 The shop of Mr. Tennant, the mineralogist. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 310/2 John James Ferber, the eminent Swedish mineralogist.
2. Zool. A name given by collectors to the gasteropods of the genus Phorus, which attach stones to the margin of their shells: a carrier shell.
1851S. P. Woodward Mollusca i. 136 Most of the phori attach foreign substances to the margins of their shells as they grow; particular species affecting stones,..are called ‘mineralogists’,..by collectors. |