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ur-oceans

ur-oceans is the plural of ur-ocean.

Meaning of ur-ocean

Noun

ur-ocean (plural ur-oceans)

  1. A primordial ocean.
    • This ur-ocean, however, to him is not one more god among others, as is Hesiod's and Homer's “deeply vortexed Okeanos”; for Thales this ocean is the one and only source from which the world springs, by condensation and evaporation.2009, Henning Genz, Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space
  2. Panthalassa.

Questions about ur-oceans

What is ur-oceans the plural of?
Ur-oceans is the plural of ur-ocean.

Words near ur-oceans in the dictionary

  1. ur-mind
  2. ur-minds
  3. ur-myth
  4. ur-myths
  5. ur-ocean
  6. ur-oceans
  7. ur-poem
  8. ur-poems
  9. ur-race
  10. ur-races
  11. ur-science

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