单词 | euramerican |
释义 | Euramericanadj. Of or pertaining to Europe and America; = Euro-American adj.; also spec. in Geology, pertaining to or designating the prehistoric land mass Euramerica. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > continent > [adjective] > specific lemurian1871 triarctic1883 Euramerican1959 Laurasian1962 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > [adjective] > relating to Europe > relating to Europe and America Euramerican1959 1959 New Biol. 29 19 The best known of the northern floras is the ‘Euramerican flora’, represented by the fossils of the great coal basins of Europe and eastern North America. a1961 in Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Culture patterns that are variants of our common Euramerican culture. 1973 Geophysical Jrnl. 34 128 These modifications need not necessarily invalidate the idea of a Euramerican group of continental plates. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 211 Hot dry conditions, with the development of extensive deserts, prevailed over much of the Euramerican kingdom and northern Gondwanaland. 1987 Christian Sci. Monitor 17 Feb. 17/1 Their canvases have provided the received images of Euramerican civilization of the past several decades. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1959 |
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