paradoxography
/ˌparədɒkˈsɒɡrəfi/noun
A literary genre, originating in early Alexandrian Greece, in which (natural or man-made) phenomena considered remarkable or fantastic are described.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The Oxford Classical Dictionary. From medieval Greek παραδοξογράϕος writer on marvels + -y; compare -graphy.
- Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi
- carny
- Carné, Marcel
- carob
- carob bean
- carob tree
- carol
- Carol City
- Carolean
- Carolina duck
- Carolina parakeet
- Caroline
- Caroline Islands
- Carolingian
- Carolingian Renaissance
- Carolinian
- caroller
- carol-singer
- carol-singing
- Carol Stream
- carom
- carotene
- carotenoid
- Carothers, Wallace Hume
- carotid