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protocontinent en · NOUN

Etymology

From proto- + continent.

Meanings

1. A landmass capable of becoming a continent.
   • 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. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55:

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