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geogonies

geogonies is the plural of geogony.

Meaning of geogony

Noun

geogony (countable and uncountable, plural geogonies)

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth.
    • Some writers divide Geology into two branches; 1. Geognosy, or Positive Geology, which embraces only the known facts of the science. 2. Geogony, or Speculative Geology, which attempts to point out the causes of those facts, and the inferences that result from them.1847, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology
  2. (countable, obsolete) A particular account of the formation of the Earth.
    • The whole system of modern geology is a reproduction of Brahminical geogonies and Maha Pralayas, or great floods.1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible

Questions about geogonies

What is geogonies the plural of?
Geogonies is the plural of geogony.

Words near geogonies in the dictionary

  1. geognostically
  2. geognosts
  3. geognosy
  4. geogonic
  5. geogonical
  6. geogonies
  7. geogony
  8. geographer
  9. geographers
  10. geographia
  11. geographic

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