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Orogeny
- noun - the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust)
Oroides
- noun - alloy of copper and tin and zinc; used in imitation gold jewelry
Orology
- noun - the science of mountains
Orontes
- unknown - a river between Lebanon and Syria.
Oropesa
- unknown - a mine sweeping device (see paravane) name after the ship HMS Oropesa on which it was developed.
Orotund
- adjective - (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
- ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
- pompous
Otocyst
- - An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.
Otolite
- - One of the small bones or particles of calcareous or other hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and otoconite.
OTOLITH
- unknown - - one of three small oval calcareous bodies in the inner ear of vertebrates, involved in sensing gravity and movement.
Otology
- noun - the branch of medicine concerned with the ear