physiographern.
/ˌfɪzɪˈɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /ˌfɪziˈɑɡrəfər/ An expert in or student of physiography; a physical geographer.
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a1834 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1980) I. 537 A class of phænomena which for the Physiographer lie dispersed may for the Physiogonist re-unite and co-organize.
1885 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 130 261 The same eminent..physiographer, in his paper on the Ocean, remarks [etc.].
1902 C. Lennox James Chalmers vi A belt of very shallow water suggesting to the physiographer that it had once formed part of the continent.
1967 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. July 5/3 The large rivers have carved deep valleys or coulees across the land. The ice ages have left prominent marks. To the physiographer this is ‘knob and kettle’ country.
2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Nov. 41/1 In his team, there were also geologists, biologists, physiographers and meteorologists, valued members in Scott's eyes, whose work was central to the entire enterprise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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