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GONDWANALAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)
Holonyms ("Gondwanaland" is a part of...):
southern hemisphere (the hemisphere to the south of the equator)