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oenography

oenography noun: writing about wine.

Noun

oenography (uncountable)

  1. Writing about wine.
    • Two South Australian writers who have made their mark in twentieth-century oenography are Geoffrey Bishop and Bryce Rankine.1994, South Australian Year Book, number 28, page 16
    • But he also regarded viticulture as fitted "to increase the comforts, and promote the morality of the lower classes of the Colony" — a theme that persists through much of our nineteenth century oenography.2001, Wayward Tendrils Quarterly, page 42

Origin of oenography

From oeno- + -graphy.

Questions about oenography

What does oenography mean?
Oenography means writing about wine.
What part of speech is oenography?
Oenography is a noun.

Words near oenography in the dictionary

  1. oenocytes
  2. oenocytic
  3. oenocytoid
  4. oenocytoids
  5. oenogarum
  6. oenography
  7. oenological
  8. oenologically
  9. oenologist
  10. oenologists
  11. oenologue

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