mineralogy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them

WordNet

Min`er*al"o*gy noun
Etymology
Mineral + -logy: cf. F. minéralogie.
Wordforms
plural Mineralogies
Definitions
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
  2. A treatise or book on this science. minerology, minerological = misspelling for mineralogy, mineralogical

Webster 1913