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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • The study of Oreo cookies. See also orography

    July 26, 2010