Eurasia [ yoo -rey -zhuh , -shuh , yuh - ] SHOW IPA
/ yʊˈreɪ ʒə, -ʃə, yə- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
Europe and Asia considered together as one continent.
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Words nearby Eurasia eupnoea ,
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How to use Eurasia in a sentence Neandertal DNA recovered from cave mud reveals that these ancient humans spread across Eurasia in two different waves.
Here’s a scene guaranteed to melt the popular stereotype of Ice Age Neandertals as spear-wielding mammoth hunters confined to Eurasia ’s frigid inner core.
Overall, the new findings suggest “that Denisovan populations were widespread in eastern Eurasia and had adapted to the Tibetan Plateau for a long time,” Zhang says.
Yet those early explorers of Eurasia vanished into evolutionary oblivion, leaving virtually no surviving DNA lineages visible in people today, and were replaced themselves by multiple waves of later populations.
Bear ceremonialism was widely practiced in traditional societies across Eurasia and North America, where bears were treated with special respect and ceremony both during the hunt and after death.
The Eurasia Union leader assured Gubareva that Moscow will support its friends in all kinds of civil conflicts in Ukraine.
Israeli engagement in Eurasia is definitely picking up speed.
Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm.
Russia shows no sign of being willing to yield power and influence to the Americans in Eurasia .
Australia will always follow in the train of Eurasia , whence alone it has derived its incentives and means of progress.
These latter are similar to, though not identical with, those which inhabited Eurasia in Pliocene times.
Somebody said that Prince Sergius of Eurasia was present, and there was a general craning of necks to get a glimpse of royalty.
It is the largest continent, Eurasia , which has been the chief center of dispersal.
But during historic and prehistoric times the lion has been a beast of western Eurasia and of Africa.
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British Dictionary definitions for Eurasia
noun
the continents of Europe and Asia considered as a whole
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Cultural definitions for Eurasia
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