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Definition of Pogonip
1. Noun. A dense winter fog containing ice particles.
Definition of Pogonip
1. a dense fog of suspended ice particles [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pogonip
Literary usage of Pogonip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"Sloping gradually down from the peak above to the canon below, pogonip Flat ...
And, leaving this bleak, cold pogonip Flat on the right, and following the ..."
2. Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the by United States Dept. of the Treasury, Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1872)
"These westerly dipping beds form, with pogonip Ridge, a synclinal fold. ...
Bromide, Chloride, and pogonip Hats arc floors of bedded limestone on the west ..."
3. Bulletin by Nevada Bureau of Mines, Ontario. Dept. of Mines (1904)
"pogonip limestone—As fossils characteristic of the pogonip formation, ... Both the
lower pogonip (of Beekmantown age) and the upper pogonip (of ..."
4. Pamphlets on Forestry in Nevada (1905)
"THE pogonip OR FROST FOG. This frost fog is the pogonip, a peculiar and ...
At times, however, when there is no wind the pogonip may linger in the valley ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1910)
"pogonip limestone.—The Dunderberg shale passes gradually into the pogonip limestone,
which is of Ordovician age. This formation is 2700 feet thick and ..."
6. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1894)
"... which appear to indicate the horizon of the Lower Trenton, or the Chazy.
Between the pogonip limestone and the Devonian there are 500' of Eureka ..."
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