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English Dictionary: physiography by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
physiography
n
  1. the study of physical features of the earth's surface [syn: physical geography, physiography]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Physiography \Phys`i*og"ra*phy\, n.
      The descriptive part of a natural science as distinguished
      from the explanatory or theoretic part; as, mineral
      physiography.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Physiography \Phys`i*og"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. fy`sis nature +
      -graphy: cf. F. physiographie.]
      The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical
      features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements
      or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the
      atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat,
      moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.
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