protocontinent

English

Alternative forms

• proto-continent

Etymology

proto- +‎ continent

Noun

protocontinent (plural protocontinents)

1. A landmass capable of becoming a continent.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55:

     There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south, but stretching from the Turgai Strait in the east to Scandinavia in the north, a European proto-continent was beginning to take shape, one that no amount of rising seas or shifting tectonic plates has divided since.