earthscape
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A view of the Earth or a part thereof, emphasizing its geological history and the natural and man-made processes that created it.
noun
A view of the earth rising above the lunar horizon as seen from the moon or from a spacecraft.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Earthscape.
Example Sentences
- "In an earthscape where man or evidence of man is prominent, we see him actively engaged in planting, reaping, and traveling[…]"
- "This project focuses on documenting the distinctive, defining aspects of Edinboro's earthscape. These aspects include the Lake Erie shoreline (especially Presque Isle), lake-effect weather, French Creek watershed, Devonian bedrock (especially related to petroleum history), viticulture, and glacial landforms."
- "Yet never do we pause to wonder why the monotonous greens and browns over the long expanse of time before flowers arrived on earth gave way so suddenly—abruptly enough on the evolutionary scale to cause Darwin great concern—to an earthscape where flowers became nearly ubiquitous"
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Wiktionary places this term in Astronomy.