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oronymies

oronymies is the plural of oronymy.

Meaning of oronymy

Noun

oronymy (countable and uncountable, plural oronymies)

  1. The nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.
    • The specific features of the Rockies oronymy are: a) the relatively young age of the oronyms, b) the prevalence of the transferred geographical names, c) the scarcity of the (printed) documentation, and finally d) the varied lexical inventory of specific names derived from mountain terminology as...1969, Proceedings and Transactions: Actes Et Mémoires, page 122

Questions about oronymies

What is oronymies the plural of?
Oronymies is the plural of oronymy.

Words near oronymies in the dictionary

  1. Orono
  2. Orontean
  3. Orontes
  4. Orontian
  5. oronym
  6. oronymies
  7. oronyms
  8. oronymy
  9. oropendola
  10. oropendolas
  11. Oropesa

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