Definition of Physiographies

1. physiography [n] - See also: physiography

Lexicographical Neighbors of Physiographies

physiognomists
physiognomize
physiognomized
physiognomizes
physiognomizing
physiognomonic
physiognomy
physiognosis
physiognotrace
physiogony
physiographer
physiographers
physiographic
physiographical
physiographically
physiographies (current term)
physiography
physiolatries
physiolatry
physiologer
physiologers
physiologic
physiologic age
physiologic albuminuria
physiologic amenorrhoea
physiologic anaemia
physiologic anisocoria
physiologic antidote
physiologic congestion
physiologic cup

Literary usage of Physiographies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lafayette Formation: By W. J. McGee by W. J. McGee (1892)
"... the determination of ancient physiographies with a high degree of exactitude. It was early foreseen and afterwards ascertained experimentally that the ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"... two illustrations of the inadequacy for geographical purposes of the present (geological) physical geographies even when considered as physiographies. ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"... in all its relations, wit the introduction, where they naturally occur, of such physiographies explanations as are not already understood by the ..."

4. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"So we might go on with physiol- ' ogy, meteorology, and oceanology as made up of a succession of physiographies, ..."

5. Geographical Essays by William Morris Davis (1909)
"The most important inherited responses are those determined by long-persistent conditions of environment, such as are common to the physiographies of all ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"North Dakota, to show some of the physiographies! features. lowing planted 7500 root-grafts of these and other varieties. ..."

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