Mauritia
name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A former microcontinent that once formed the landbridge between the subcontinents of Madagascar and India, which was subducted under the African plate, and now partly lie under the region of Mauritius.
Etymology
From Mauritius + -ia, from lying underneath Mauritius.
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