Pangea

English

Proper noun

Pangea

  1. Alternative spelling of Pangaea: (geology) A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.
    • 2022 February 3, Lucas Joel, “Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 March 2022:
      Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea.

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

From German Pangäa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəɲˈʒe.ə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [paɲˈd͡ʒe.a]
  • Audio (Barcelona):(file)
  • Hyphenation: Pan‧ge‧a

Proper noun

Pangea f

  1. (geology) Pangaea (a former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /panˈd͡ʒɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Hyphenation: Pan‧gè‧a

Proper noun

Pangea f

  1. (geology) Pangaea (a former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana)

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paŋˈɡɛ.a/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Syllabification: Pan‧ge‧a

Proper noun

Pangea f

  1. (geology) Pangaea (a former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana)

Declension

Further reading

  • Pangea in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /panˈxea/ [pãŋˈxe.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: Pan‧ge‧a

Proper noun

Pangea f

  1. (geology) Pangaea (a former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana)