Meanings
nounpetrologist (plural petrologists)
plural petrologists
- 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
Origin
Translations
Russian петро́лог
- петро́лог (petrólog)petrological scientist
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with petrologist
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