"orogenous zone" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy to erogenous zone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "orogenous zones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "orogenous zone (plural orogenous zones)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Orogenous zones are usually found along plate boundaries.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The villagers were astonished to learn that they were living in an orogenous zone.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, M. Palmer, editor, World Petroleum, volume 31, page 65",
          "text": "...an orogenous zone separates a deep subsiding western zone, over 3,000 meters deep, from a more stable eastern zone rising gently to the east.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi",
          "text": "The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, “Geomorphology and Paleogeography”, in Proceedings of the International Geographical Union, page 78",
          "text": "Structures due to strata compaction have been identified in the orogenous zone of North-Dobrogea (Independenta), in the Moesic Platform and in the Pannonian Depression (Teremia).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jeff Rovin, Fatalis: a Novel, Macmillan, page 28",
          "text": "Grand knew the mountains well, he respected their moods, and above all he enjoyed the challenge of what Tumamait — when he still had a sense of humor — once referred to as \"one of the earth's most seductive and temperamental orogenous zones.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Gregory S. Babonis, “et al.”, in Using Multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar to Develop Regional-Scale Groundwater Maps, University of Michigan, page 9",
          "text": "The NHLR lies within the Northern Highlands region—a relict orogenous zone that has been glacially eroded to form a highland plateau region spanning from Michigan to Minnesota.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A region characterized by mountain-building."
      ],
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          "geology",
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        ],
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          "erogenous zone",
          "erogenous zone"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "by analogy to erogenous zone",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology, often humorous, by analogy to erogenous zone) A region characterized by mountain-building."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "orogeny"
        }
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "orogenous zone"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "By analogy to erogenous zone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "orogenous zones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "orogenous zone (plural orogenous zones)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "orogeny"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Orogenous zones are usually found along plate boundaries.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The villagers were astonished to learn that they were living in an orogenous zone.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, M. Palmer, editor, World Petroleum, volume 31, page 65",
          "text": "...an orogenous zone separates a deep subsiding western zone, over 3,000 meters deep, from a more stable eastern zone rising gently to the east.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi",
          "text": "The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, “Geomorphology and Paleogeography”, in Proceedings of the International Geographical Union, page 78",
          "text": "Structures due to strata compaction have been identified in the orogenous zone of North-Dobrogea (Independenta), in the Moesic Platform and in the Pannonian Depression (Teremia).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jeff Rovin, Fatalis: a Novel, Macmillan, page 28",
          "text": "Grand knew the mountains well, he respected their moods, and above all he enjoyed the challenge of what Tumamait — when he still had a sense of humor — once referred to as \"one of the earth's most seductive and temperamental orogenous zones.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Gregory S. Babonis, “et al.”, in Using Multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar to Develop Regional-Scale Groundwater Maps, University of Michigan, page 9",
          "text": "The NHLR lies within the Northern Highlands region—a relict orogenous zone that has been glacially eroded to form a highland plateau region spanning from Michigan to Minnesota.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A region characterized by mountain-building."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
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          "erogenous zone",
          "erogenous zone"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "by analogy to erogenous zone",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology, often humorous, by analogy to erogenous zone) A region characterized by mountain-building."
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  "word": "orogenous zone"
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