See Also: physiography(medicine)
physiography(dictionary)

yuck (oh) and physiography (medicine)


yuck (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: From the sound of vomiting]
informal used to show that you think something is very unpleasant
::Oh yuck! I hate mayonnaise.

physiography (medicine)


physiography


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.

Origin: Gr. Nature: cf. F. Physiographie.

Source: Websters Dictionary