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bicontinental

bicontinental adjective: spanning or pertaining to two continents.

Adjective

bicontinental (not comparable)

  1. Spanning or pertaining to two continents.
    • After a long courtship over the telephone, Asma Ahmed, a painter in Karachi, Pakistan, married her fiancé, Rafi-uddin Shikoh, a business consultant in New York, in a bicontinental wedding by Webcam.2009 June 7, Deborah Sontag, “The Intersection of Islam, America and Identity”, in New York Times

Origin of bicontinental

From bi- + continental.

Questions about bicontinental

What does bicontinental mean?
Bicontinental means spanning or pertaining to two continents.
What part of speech is bicontinental?
Bicontinental is an adjective.

Words near bicontinental in the dictionary

  1. bicons
  2. biconservative
  3. biconsonantal
  4. biconsonantals
  5. biconstituent
  6. bicontinental
  7. bicontinuity
  8. bicontinuous
  9. biconvex
  10. biconvexities
  11. biconvexity

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