LANDMASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landmass mean? 

• LANDMASS (noun)
  The noun LANDMASS has 1 sense:

1. a large continuous extent of land

  Familiarity information: LANDMASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDMASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large continuous extent of land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

land mass; landmass

Hypernyms ("landmass" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landmass"):

continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)

subcontinent (a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent)

 Context examples 

One of the large landmasses of the earth.

(Continent, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists have discovered the first-ever fossil evidence of monkeys from the North American landmass: a 21-million-year-old specimen that changes our understanding of the biological history of the continent.

(First-ever fossil monkey found in North America, NSF)

When the landmass that today is the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia some 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents and altered global climate.

(Tectonic collision 50 million years ago led to widespread ocean changes, National Science Foundation)

The continent as a whole is a landmass the size of the U.S. and Mexico combined, of which 98 percent is permanently covered with ice and snow.

(Soot transported from elsewhere in world contributes little to melting of some Antarctic glaciers, National Science Foundation)

But the marsupials' dominant status changed, according to the researchers, when tectonic plate movement joined the ancient island with the larger landmass.

(Fossil discovery adds to understanding of how geological changes affected evolution of mammalian life, National Science Foundation)