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单词 land mass
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land mass
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land mass: land masses
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The territory occupies a fifth of Canada's land mass.
BBC(Dec 14, 2016)
Instead, the 30-foot-wide sculpture simply shows the world’s land masses silhouetted on a spherical framework of latitudinal and longitudinal struts.
New York Times(Oct 25, 2016)
In all, it includes 23 counties and cities and in land mass is bigger than New Jersey.
Washington Post(Oct 21, 2016)
n a large continuous extent of land
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landmass
Africa
the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
Antarctic continent
an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
Asia
the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
Australia
the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
Eurasia
the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
Europe
the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
Gondwanaland
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
Laurasia
a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
North America
a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
Pangaea
(plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
South America
a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
continent
one of the large landmasses of the earth
subcontinent
a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent
dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma
the solid part of the earth's surface
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