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petrologist

petrologist noun: a geologist who specializes in petrology.

Noun

petrologist (plural petrologists)

  1. A geologist who specializes in petrology.
    • As Kirkpatrick worked, Otto Hahn - an intensely patriotic German lawyer and amateur petrologist turned Swedenborgian who believed life originated in outer space - was spending long hours staring down his microscope at what he took to be the fossilised remnants of algae.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 76

Forms of petrologist

pluralpetrologists

Origin of petrologist

From petrology + -ist.

Questions about petrologist

What does petrologist mean?
Petrologist means a geologist who specializes in petrology.
What part of speech is petrologist?
Petrologist is a noun.
What is the plural of petrologist?
The plural of petrologist is petrologists.

Words near petrologist in the dictionary

  1. petrolly
  2. petrologic
  3. petrological
  4. petrologically
  5. petrologies
  6. petrologist
  7. petrologists
  8. petrology
  9. petrols
  10. Petrolândia
  11. petrolæum

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