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microcontinents

microcontinents is the plural of microcontinent.

Meaning of microcontinent

Noun

microcontinent (plural microcontinents)

  1. A fragment of continental crust that has cleaved off its parent tectonic plate.
    • Seychelles can first be considered to have existed 62 mya when the Seychelles microcontinent split from India as a result of intense activity in the Carlsberg ridge which started 64 mya[…]2013, Biogeography of the terrestrial and freshwater biota of the Seychelles islands, page 30

Questions about microcontinents

What is microcontinents the plural of?
Microcontinents is the plural of microcontinent.

Words near microcontinents in the dictionary

  1. microcontext
  2. microcontexts
  3. microcontextual
  4. microcontinent
  5. microcontinental
  6. microcontinents
  7. microcontribution
  8. microcontributions
  9. microcontrolled
  10. microcontroller
  11. microcontrollers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microcontinents (page history and authors); microcontinent (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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