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intercontinentally

intercontinentally adverb: between continents.

Adverb

intercontinentally (not comparable)

  1. Between continents.
    • Our results support this scenario, but we find that ensuing warming periods also provide gateways that allowed the common ancestor of the elwesi-species group to disperse intercontinentally.2015 October 21, “Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of Asian Pterourus Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae): A Case of Intercontinental Dispersal from North America to East Asia”, in PLOS ONE...

Origin of intercontinentally

From intercontinental + -ly.

Questions about intercontinentally

What does intercontinentally mean?
Intercontinentally means between continents.
What part of speech is intercontinentally?
Intercontinentally is an adverb.

Words near intercontinentally in the dictionary

  1. intercontact
  2. intercontextual
  3. intercontinental
  4. intercontinental ballistic missile
  5. intercontinental ballistic missiles
  6. intercontinentally
  7. intercontractile
  8. intercontraction
  9. intercontradiction
  10. intercontradictions
  11. intercontradictory

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