Chorology

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chorology \Cho*rol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? place + -logy.] (Biol.)
     The science which treats of the laws of distribution of
     living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude,
     altitude, locality, etc.
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           Its distribution or chorology.           --Huxley.
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