From orogeny + -ous. <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span>) (geology, often humorous, by analogy to erogenous) Of or relating...
<span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> zones plural of <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> zone...
By analogy to erogenous zone. <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> zone (plural <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> zones) (geology, often humorous, by analogy to erogenous zone) A region characterized by...
The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an...
comparable, no derived adverb) (relational, geology) orogeny; orogenic, <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> Synonym: górotwórczy Antonym: anorogeniczny Declension of orogeniczny...
(geology) A mountain belt whose process of deformation is visible. (geology) Any mountain belt with significant curvature. orogenesis <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> orogeny...
Concerned with orogeny; pertaining to the creation of mountains. Synonym: <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 116:...
definition by Armstrong (1968). orogenesis taphrogeny orogenic orogenesis <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> orogen the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's...
The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an...
zone, no lone zone north temperate zone nuclear-free zone offensive zone <span class="searchmatch">orogenous</span> zone pedestrian zone pelagic zone photic zone phreatic zone purple zone...