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Gond·wana (gänd wä′nə)

the Mesozoic landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that included what are now South America, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica: it and Laurasia were the result of the splitting of Pangea
often called Gondwanaland Gond·wa′·na·land′ (-land′)

Etymology: after the Gondwana Series, an extensive tillite deposit in Gondwana, region in central India < Gond

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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