The range of minerals in a diet or a rock. / A cosmetic made and of any of several finely ground minerals, mixed with a base such as cocoa butter.

Alternative spelling of leaf miner

(ecology) An insect larva that lives between the epidermis of a leaf and consumes the leaf tissue.

A person expert in mineralogy.

Relating to mineralogy.

Water from a spring that naturally contains dissolved minerals, often treated in any of several ways (filtering, aerating etc) and bottled; used either therapeutically or out of preference.

(law) The right to exploit the mineral resources located on or, especially, beneath a parcel of land

To convert to a mineral; to petrify. / To impregnate with minerals. / To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.

plural of minefield

A ship capable of laying mines.