SINCE 1828
selenography
noun
sel·e·nog·ra·phy
| \ ˌseləˈnägrəfē\
plural -es
Definition of selenography
1
: the science of the physical features of the moon
attention of astronomers was directed to other fields, and selenography … made no further progress— R. B. Baldwin
2
: the physical geography of the moon
the first major treatise on descriptive selenography to appear in English for a quarter-century— Joseph Ashbrook
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