geo-, ge- +
(Greek: earth, land, soil; world; Gaia (Greek), Gaea (Latin), "earth goddess")
2. The study of the earth by quantitative physical methods; especially, by seismic reflection and refraction, gravity, magnetic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity methods.
3. The scientific study of the physical characteristics and properties of the solid earth, its air and waters, and its relationship to space phenomena.
4. The science that deals with the weather, winds, tides, earthquakes, etc.; and their effects on the earth.
5. The soils, sediments, and rock layers of the earth's crust, both continental and beneath the ocean floors.
The meaning of the word geophysics is undergoing changes. The classical methods of geophysics are being applied to the planets now that we can reach them.
Seismological techniques are being used to study the interior of the moon, and magnetic field measurements are important probes for the planets.
The name will not change; however, because it is a most encompassing science, ranging from petroleum exploration on the earth to the understanding of the most distant planets.
2. A perennial land, or terrestrial, plant that propagates from organs; such as, bulbs, tubers, or rhizomes that are below ground.
3. A perennial plant; such as, a crocus or tulip, propagated by buds on underground bulbs, tubers, or corms.
Corms are short swollen underground stem bases in some plants; such as, crocuses and gladioli that store food over the winter and produce new foliage in the spring. New corms often form on top of old ones and are used as a means of producing new plants.
2. The influence of geographic factors, population distribution, and natural resources on a nation's foreign policy; that is, the efforts of a nation to control a canal, trade route, oil supply, etc.
3. A combination of geographic and political factors relating to or influencing a nation or region.
2. The study or science of agriculture.
Simply stated: The pressure within the earth, or formation pressure.
Available for further enlightenment: the Earth, Words from the Myths.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; glob-; lut-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.