Definition of "rockhound" []

• Alternative spelling of rock hound. (noun)

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• "Forty-five years of marriage, Alma would announce, and now he had decided to become a lunatic rockhound?"
• "Darwin, the man who would almost singlehandedly redefine biological science, started out as an amateur naturalist, a beetle collector, a rockhound, a 22-year-old rich-kid dilettante who, after flirting with the idea of being first a physician and then a preacher, was allowed to ship out with the Beagle as someone who might supply good conversation at the captain's table."
• "Geikie did the classic thing: picking up fossils as a kid and becoming an obsessive rockhound thereafter."