Protocontinent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Protocontinent is a noun meaning A landmass capable of becoming a continent.
Meaning
A landmass capable of becoming a continent.
Example Sentences
There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south, but stretching from the Turgai Strait in the east to Scandinavia in the north, a European proto-continent was beginning to take shape, one that no amount of rising seas or shifting tectonic plates has divided since.
Word Forms
- protocontinents
- proto-continent
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paleocontinent, supercontinent, ur-continent, palaeocontinent, archicontinent, craton.
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