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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

ὀρυκτόσ

dug +

-logy

: cf. F.

oryctologie

An old name for paleontology.

An old name for mineralogy and geology.

Noun.

[Gr. fossil, and discourse.] That part of physics which treats of fossils.

oryctology ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) The study of things dug out of the earth, including minerals and fossils.