Word Meanings - MINERAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals. 2. A mine.

Additional info about word: MINERAL

1. An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals. 2. A mine. Shak. 3. Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MINERAL)

• Inorganic
• Inanimate
• azoic
• mineral

Related words: (words related to MINERAL)

• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• INORGANICALLY
  In an inorganic manner.
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• AZOIC
  Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. Azoic age , the age preceding the existence of animal life,
• INANIMATENESS
  The quality or state of being inanimate. The deadness and inanimateness of the subject. W. Montagu.
• INANIMATED
  Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated. Pope.
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• MINERALIZER
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• MINERALIZE
  1. To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland. 2. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
• MINERALOGIST
  A carrier shell . (more info) 1. One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
• MINERAL
  1. An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals. 2. A mine.
• INANIMATE
  To animate. Donne.
• MINERALOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• METAZOIC
  Of or pertaining to the Metazoa.