English Explanatory Dictionary

continental drip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon whereby southward-pointing landforms are more numerous and prominent than northward-pointing landforms.

Word forms

continental drip

Etymology

By analogy or alliteration with continental drift.

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