Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
orography .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of mountains; orography.
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- noun Alternative form of
orography .
Etymologies
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From oreo- + -graphy.
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Examples
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How can you object to the positive assertion of a conscientious man who has passed within a few hundred miles of _Tycho_, the culminating point in the strangest of all the strange systems of lunar oreography?
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
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You can easily trace its special oreography, its various mountain systems which turn it into a regular world on a small scale.
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
frogapplause commented on the word oreography
The study of Oreo cookies. See also orography
July 26, 2010