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orycˈtologist
[f. as next + -ist.]
One versed in oryctology; a mineralogist or palæontologist.
1799De Serra in Phil. Trans. LXXXIX. 151 Impressions or remains of plants..by more ancient and less enlightened oryctologists, supposed to belong to plants actually growing in temperate and cold climates. 1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. xiv. (ed. 2) 301 With which [substances] the oryctologist has still to acquaint himself. |