Orography

2 definitions found

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

  Orography \O*rog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. 'o`ros, a mountain + -graphy.]
     That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain
     systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  orography
       n : the science of mountains [syn: {orology}]