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land bridge
noun
- 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.
- 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
- (in zoogeography) a connecting tract of land between two continents, enabling animals to pass from one continent to the other
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Word History and Origins
Origin of land bridge1
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Example Sentences
The Sinai is the land bridge between Africa and Asia; it is also the gateway to Gaza and Israel from Egypt.
A little geological turnover, a swampy land bridge formed in the right spot, and the lizards began to wander up beacon valley.
They may have come into America across the Siberia-Alaska land bridge a million or so years ago.
The destruction of this old land-bridge, he thinks, must have taken place before the commencement of the Glacial period.
The new-comers had migrated from some centre of culture in North Africa, and appear to have crossed over the Italian land-bridge.
The easiest crossing to Britain was over the English Channel land-bridge.
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