See Also: geognosy(medicine)
geognosy(dictionary)

geognosy (iou)



geognosy noun. Now chiefly Hist. L18.
[French geognosie, from Greek geo- GEO- + gnosis knowledge.]
The branch of science that deals with the structure and composition of the earth; loosely geology. L18.
The mineralogy of particular rocks (esp. in a region), together with the grouping, distribution and relations of those rocks. E19.