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Pangaea

Syllabification: (Pan·gae·a)
Pronunciation: /panˈjēə/
(also Pangea)
Definition of Pangaea
  • a supercontinent comprising all the continental crust of the earth, postulated to have existed in late Paleozoic and Mesozoic times before it broke into Gondwana and Laurasia.

Origin:

early 20th century: from pan- 'all' + Greek gaia 'earth'

Pangaea in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Pangaea in the British & World English dictionary