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palaeocontinent

palaeocontinent is the alternative form of paleocontinent.

Meaning of paleocontinent

Noun

paleocontinent (plural paleocontinents)

  1. A continent that existed in the geological past.
    • There was also a northern paleocontinent, Angara-Land, spanning the present-day North Atlantic connecting North America with Europe via Greenland and including the whole of Asia north of the Tethys.2012, Henry R. Frankel, The Continental Drift Controversy, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 42

Forms of palaeocontinent

pluralpalaeocontinents

Origin of palaeocontinent

From palaeo- + continent.

Questions about palaeocontinent

What is palaeocontinent the alternative form of?
Palaeocontinent is the alternative form of paleocontinent.

Words near palaeocontinent in the dictionary

  1. palaeocommunities
  2. palaeocommunity
  3. palaeoconservative
  4. palaeoconservatives
  5. palaeocontact
  6. palaeocontinent
  7. palaeocontinental
  8. palaeocontinents
  9. palaeocopid
  10. palaeocortex
  11. palaeocourse

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