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orogenous en · ADJ

Etymology

From orogeny + -ous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to mountain-building; orogenic.
    • The gradual uplift of mountains is the most common form of orogenous activity.
    • [O]rogenous uplifts grow continuously... 1993, L.P. Zonenshain Memorial Conference on Plate Tectonics: Programme and Abstracts, page 27:
    • Within the remaining young circumpacific orogenous belt there are mainly two regions of special interest with regard to geothermal conditions left for consideration... 1970, Proceedings of the United Nations Symposium on the Development and Utilisation of Geothermal Resources, vol. 2, part 2, page 1229:
    • Orogenous spruce, larch and arolla, mountain pine forests and plantations Western Palaearcic orogenous spruce forests 1999, Jean Terschuren, “Action plan for Cypripedium calceolus in Europe”, in Nature and Environment, number 100, page 42:
    • The Fergana intermountain depression falls into the orogenous class structures... Being part of post-Paleozoic activation region it has gone through a number of orogenous epochs... 1980, Nils-Axel Morner, editor, Earth Rheology, Isostasy, and Eustasy, John Wiley & Sons, page 428:

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orogenous zone