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continental drip

continental drip noun: the phenomenon whereby southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms.

Noun

continental drip (uncountable)

  1. The phenomenon whereby southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms.

Origin of continental drip

By analogy or alliteration with continental drift.

Questions about continental drip

What does continental drip mean?
Continental drip means the phenomenon whereby southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms.
What part of speech is continental drip?
Continental drip is a noun.

Words near continental drip in the dictionary

  1. continental crust
  2. continental crusts
  3. continental divide
  4. continental divides
  5. continental drift
  6. continental drip
  7. continental Europe
  8. continental glacier
  9. continental glaciers
  10. Continental Navy
  11. continental philosophies

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