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Rodinia

Rodinia proper noun: the world supercontinent that formed at the end of the Mesoproterozoic era, then broke into eight continents during the Neoproterozoic.

Proper noun

Rodinia

  1. The world supercontinent that formed at the end of the Mesoproterozoic era, then broke into eight continents during the Neoproterozoic.

Origin of Rodinia

From Russian ро́дина (ródina, “homeland”), coined by Mark McMenamin and Dianna McMenamin in 1990.

Questions about Rodinia

What does Rodinia mean?
Rodinia means the world supercontinent that formed at the end of the Mesoproterozoic era, then broke into eight continents during the Neoproterozoic.
What part of speech is Rodinia?
Rodinia is a proper noun.

Words near Rodinia in the dictionary

  1. rodingitisation
  2. rodingitised
  3. rodingitization
  4. rodingitized
  5. rodings
  6. Rodinia
  7. Rodinian
  8. Rodis
  9. rodizio
  10. rodizios
  11. rodkaal

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