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tricontinental

tricontinental adjective: spanning or pertaining to three continents (typically either Europe and the Americas, or Latin America, Europe and Africa).

Adjective

tricontinental (not comparable)

  1. Spanning or pertaining to three continents (typically either Europe and the Americas, or Latin America, Europe and Africa)

Origin of tricontinental

From tri- + continental.

Words formed from tricontinental

Questions about tricontinental

What does tricontinental mean?
Tricontinental means spanning or pertaining to three continents (typically either Europe and the Americas, or Latin America, Europe and Africa).
What part of speech is tricontinental?
Tricontinental is an adjective.

Words near tricontinental in the dictionary

  1. triconsonantalism
  2. triconsonantals
  3. triconsonantic
  4. tricontenoate
  5. tricontenoates
  6. tricontinental
  7. tricontinentalism
  8. tricoordinate
  9. tricoordinated
  10. tricopper
  11. tricopter

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