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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal One who specializes in geology.
- n. Informal One who collects rocks and minerals, especially gemstones, as a hobby.
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Rocks
rock lobster, rock cod, rock dove, rock bass, rock brake, rock crab, rock elm, rock maple, rock garden, rock rabbit, rock squirrel, rock wallaby and 36 more...
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Grounded Words
an Eckhartian exercise of grinding
grind, grist, refrain, ground, grit, mitochondrion, groats, grout, gruel, great, gruesome, gravel and 162 more...
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types of collectors
arctophile, philatelist, conchologist, oologist, phillumenist, deltiologist, numismatist, labeorphilist, notaphilist, rock hound, lexiconophilist, oenophile and 7 more...
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treeseed Rockhounding is the recreational collecting of rocks and/or mineral specimens from their natural environment. Rock hound, one such collector. Jan 31, 2008