mineralogist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a scientist who studies the formation, composition, properties, and classification of minerals

   A mineralogist examined the crystal structure before identifying the specimen.

Formed from mineralogy + the specialist suffix -ist, after French mineralogiste. Mineralogy itself derives from mineral + -logy, the latter ultimately from Greek logos ("study or account"); a mineralogist is therefore a specialist in the scientific study of minerals.

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