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Laurasia

/lə.ɹeɪ.ʒə/

Laurasia proper noun: a supercontinent which included most of the landmasses making up today's continents of the Northern Hemisphere.

Proper noun

Laurasia

  1. A supercontinent which included most of the landmasses making up today's continents of the Northern Hemisphere.
    • A diverse collection of ankylosaurs once roamed in great numbers across Laurasia — the northern supercontinent that once contained North America and Asia.2021 December 1, Asher Elbein, “This Dinosaur Found in Chile Had a Battle Ax for a Tail”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Laurasia meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Indonesian

Laurasia in Tamil

supercontinent
லோரேசியா lōrēciyā

Laurasia in Bengali

supercontinent
লরেশিয়া loreśiẏa

Laurasia in Kannada

ಲಾರೇಷಿಯಾ

Laurasia in Indonesian

supercontinent
Laurasia
More languagesFewer languages
Laurasia in Persian
لوراسیا
Laurasia in Thai
มหาทวีปลอเรเชีย
Kashmiri
لاوریسیہٕ lāvrēsyụ

Origin of Laurasia

Blend of Laurentia + Eurasia.

Words formed from Laurasia

Words that rhyme with Laurasia

Questions about Laurasia

What does Laurasia mean?
Laurasia means a supercontinent which included most of the landmasses making up today's continents of the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Laurasia in Tamil?
Laurasia in Tamil is லோரேசியா (lōrēciyā). See Laurasia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Laurasia?
Laurasia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Laurasia?
Laurasia is pronounced /lə.ɹeɪ.ʒə/.

Words near Laurasia in the dictionary

  1. laurae
  2. lauraldehyde
  3. lauralean
  4. lauramide
  5. lauras
  6. Laurasia
  7. Laurasian
  8. laurasiatherian
  9. laurasiatherians
  10. laurate
  11. laurates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Laurasia (page history and authors); Laurasia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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