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orogenies

orogenies is the plural of orogeny.

Meaning of orogeny

Noun

orogeny (countable and uncountable, plural orogenies)

  1. The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
    • Coordinate term: taphrogeny
    Synonyms:
    orogenesis

Questions about orogenies

What is orogenies the plural of?
Orogenies is the plural of orogeny.

Words near orogenies in the dictionary

  1. orogenetic
  2. orogenic
  3. orogenic belt
  4. orogenic belts
  5. orogenically
  6. orogenies
  7. orogenital
  8. orogenous
  9. orogenous zone
  10. orogenous zones
  11. orogens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orogenies (page history and authors); orogeny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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