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GEOCENTRIC

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in Astronomy, is applied to a planet, or its orbit, to denote it concentric with the earth, or as having the earth for its centre, or the same centre with the earth.

GEOFFRÆA, a genus of plants belonging to the diadelphia class, and in the natural method ranking under the 32d order, Papilionaceae. See BOTANY and MATERIA MEDICA Index