land bridge

noun

1. Geology. an actual or hypothetical strip of land, subject to submergence, that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals:

   a prehistoric land bridge between Asia and North America.

2. a transcontinental rail route between countries, as those in Europe and East Asia, considered faster and less costly than all-sea routes.

land bridge

noun

1. (in zoogeography) a connecting tract of land between two continents, enabling animals to pass from one continent to the other

Word History and Origins

Origin of land bridge¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

The Sinai is the land bridge between Africa and Asia; it is also the gateway to Gaza and Israel from Egypt.

From The Daily Beast

A little geological turnover, a swampy land bridge formed in the right spot, and the lizards began to wander up beacon valley.

From Project Gutenberg

They may have come into America across the Siberia-Alaska land bridge a million or so years ago.

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The destruction of this old land-bridge, he thinks, must have taken place before the commencement of the Glacial period.

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The new-comers had migrated from some centre of culture in North Africa, and appear to have crossed over the Italian land-bridge.

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The easiest crossing to Britain was over the English Channel land-bridge.

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