mineral

Related to mineral: mineral resources

animal, vegetable, or mineral

In the game 20 Questions, these are three categories that the answer could potentially fit into. Well, what is it? Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
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mineral

slang A soda. Primarily heard in Ireland. I'm pretty thirsty, so I'm going to get a mineral with my order.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

animal, vegetable, or mineral?

“20 Questions” was a popular parlor game in which players tried to guess the answer by asking no more than twenty questions. The person who answered the questions gave the players the initial hint of whether the subject was animal, vegetable, or mineral. The game's becoming the format of a very successful radio and then television quiz show beginning in the early 1940s spread the opening hint into general use. Anyone who innocently began a query with “I have a question” was liable to be met with “Is the answer animal, vegetable, or mineral?”
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
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Collector's Guide to Quartz and Other Silica Minerals packs in well over a hundred colorful photos of these minerals showing each in its geological context, covering minerals in geological settings from a wide range of locales and offering plenty of science, chemistry, and analysis of the taxonomy of the mineral group as a whole.
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Release date- 23082019 - The Panel has received an application from Mineral Commodities Limited (ASX: MRC) in relation to its affairs.