单词 | oryctography |
释义 | † oryctographyn. Obsolete. rare. The description of minerals; mineralogy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > mineralogy > [noun] mineralsa1500 mineralogy1671 oryctography1753 fossilogy1776 oryctognosy1801 oryctology1804 oryctics1888 rockhounding1949 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Oryctography, is that part of natural history wherein fossils are described. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 95 Ferber, in his oryctography of Derbyshire, mentions iron-stone. DerivativesΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Oryctographic, of or belonging to oryctography. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geology > mineralogy > [adjective] mineralogical1653 oryctognostic1794 oryctognostical1805 mineralogic1811 oryctographical1857 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Oryctographicus,..oryctographical. ΚΠ 1887 A. Heilprin Geogr. & Geol. Distribution Animals II. ii. 225 The New Jersey greensands are..oryctographically correlated with the Upper Cretaceous deposits of Northern Europe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1753 |
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