Definition of "bathyorographical" in English

adjective

1. Of, embodying, or pertaining to elevation heights and pelagic depths.

   • We were upon what the bathyorographical map of England terms “The Forest Ridge,” which lies between the North Downs and the sea.
   • If they are not, they can easily be grasped by a study of a bathyorographical map. That will at once show that Scotland is divided—not very effectively— from the rest of Britain by the ridge of the Cheviots running north-east to south-west.
   • The chapter 'The Wanderer' fully reflects a tragic, manic depressive temperament in bathyorographical imagery.
   • As we see from Tinto, it is not far from Culter to Biggar, which is on a totally different watershed, and does not figure on the bathyorographical map of the Clyde at all.
   • The geology of the Barents Sea can be learned from, on one hand, the bathyorographical map and, on the other, from the geological structure of the lands enclosing the Sea which, being a shelf or epicontinental sea.