choro-, chor- +
(Greek: place, space, land; country, district)
Someone who describes, or delineates, a particular country or region: Mr. Swift was a chorographer who created or drew maps of large areas, in contrast to small places or localities.
chorographic, chorographical (adjective) (not comparable)
Pertaining to the science of cities, regions, or provinces: Mr. Timmons was involved in chorographic work by drawing maps of the boundaries of a certain localities or countries.
chorographically (adverb) (not comparable)
Relating to how regions ,cities or provinces are mapped: Dr. Robertsons talked to his students about his activity of creating special maps and showed them the chorographically related tools he used in making the detailed maps.
The art or practice of describing, or of delineating on a map or chart, particular regions, or districts; as distinguished from geography, taken as dealing with the Earth in general, and (less distinctly) from topography, which deals with particular places, as towns, etc.
chorological (adjective) (not comparable)
Regarding the study of establishing the order of places or areas in which they occurred or have been formed: The goal of the chorological point of view is to know the character of regions and places by comprehending the existence together and interrelations among different realms of reality and their varied manifestations, and to comprehend the earth's surface as a whole in its actual arrangement in continents, larger and smaller regions, and various places.
The scientific study of the geographical extent or limits of anything: The chorology of organisms, is the study of the geographical and topographical distribution of animal and vegetable species.
Chorology is the science dealing with the laws of distribution of living organisms over the Earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.
Chorology is also the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region.
In addition, chorology is concerned with the spatial distribution of organisms.
chorometry (noun) (no pl)
The art of surveying a region, district, or country: Chorometry is the science of land surveying or measuring the dimensions, quantities, or capacities of geographical areas.
The science or study of the distribution and classification of plant communities into regional units, such as a province, a sector, or a district: Synchorology involves a knowledge of the distribution of plants into zones, vegetation and geographical complexes, and current plant migration patterns.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; lut-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.
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