Crossword-Solution: OROGRAPHY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orography | n. | That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe. |
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| MOUNTAIN geography | 1 answer |
| study or mapping of relief, esp of mountains | 1 answer |
| GEODESY, subject of | 11 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with OROGRAPHY (5)
But the observations of scientific travellers have recently thrown great light on the orography of Portuguese America.
Since their departure, the party had descended the low declivities which constituted the orography of the island, over a very dry district, although the luxuriant vegetation suggested either a hydrographic network permeating the ground beneath, or the proximity to some stream.
Indeed, a study of Mexico's orography and the delineation upon the map shows the series of parallel features formed by alternate mountain-folds and intervening basins--the peninsula of Lower California; the Gulf of the same name; the Western Sierra Madre; the intersecting crests of the great plateau; the Eastern Sierra Madre, and the Gulf Coast.
Coahuila, in common with others of its neighbouring states, possesses some peculiar topographical conditions--portions of it consisting of plains or valleys with no hydrographic outlet, as shown in the chapter dealing with the orography of the Republic.
Its orography gives rise to the presence of numerous rivers and streams, all of which are upon the Atlantic watershed.