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protocontinents

protocontinents is the plural of protocontinent.

Meaning of protocontinent

Noun

protocontinent (plural protocontinents)

  1. A landmass capable of becoming a continent.
    • There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south, but stretching from the Turgai Strait in the east to Scandinavia in the north, a European proto-continent was beginning to take shape, one that no amount of rising seas or shifting tectonic plates...2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55

Questions about protocontinents

What is protocontinents the plural of?
Protocontinents is the plural of protocontinent.

Words near protocontinents in the dictionary

  1. protocones
  2. protoconid
  3. protoconids
  4. protoconodont
  5. protocontinent
  6. protocontinents
  7. protoconule
  8. protoconules
  9. protoconversation
  10. protoconversational
  11. protoconversations

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