Tasmantis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Zealandia.

Word forms

Tasmantis

Etymology

Likely from Tasman, with a suffix rebracketed from Atlantic or even Atlantis; coined in 1919 by geologists Carl Süssmilch and Edgeworth David

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