Supercontinent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large hypothetical continent, especially Pangaea, that is thought to have split into smaller ones in the geologic past. Also called protocontinent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A very large continent that split into smaller ones in the Earth’s geologic past.
  • n. Sometimes used to refer, due to their being composed of multiple continents, to one of the following modern landmasses: Afro-Eurasia and the Americas. (compare subcontinent)
  • Word Usage
    "Pangea (Greek for "all lands") is the "supercontinent" created when these two giant landmasses drifted into one another, a process that was complete by the middle of the"