Mauritia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A former microcontinent that once formed the landbridge between the subcontinents of Madagascar and India, which was subducted under the African plate, and now partly lie under the region of Mauritius.

Word forms

Mauritia

Etymology

From Mauritius + -ia, from lying underneath Mauritius.

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