LAURASIA


Meaning of LAURASIA in English

/law ray"zheuh, -sheuh/ , n. Geol.

a hypothetical landmass in the Northern Hemisphere near the end of the Paleozoic Era: split apart to form North America and Eurasia. Cf. Gondwana .

[ 1930-35; b. LAURENTIAN (def. 2) and EURASIA ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .