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paleocontinents

paleocontinents is the plural 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

Questions about paleocontinents

What is paleocontinents the plural of?
Paleocontinents is the plural of paleocontinent.

Words near paleocontinents in the dictionary

  1. paleoconservative
  2. paleoconservatives
  3. paleocontact
  4. paleocontinent
  5. paleocontinental
  6. paleocontinents
  7. paleocoordinate
  8. paleocoordinates
  9. paleocopid
  10. paleocortex
  11. paleocortical

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