[f. Gr. χώρα, χῶρος country, region + -λογια discourse; see -LOGY.] The scientific study of the geographical extent or limits of anything.
1879. trans. Haeckel’s Evol. Man, I. iv. 74. The chorology of organisms, the doctrine, that is, of the geographical and topographical distribution of animal and vegetable species.
1879. Huxley, Cray-Fish, ii. 46. The answer to the third question ‘Where is it found?’ would represent what we know of its Distribution or Chorology. Ibid., 47. Facts comprised under Morphology, Physiology, and Chorology.
