Definitions for land bridge

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

land′ bridge`(n.)

or land′bridge`

  1. an actual or hypothetical strip of land that connects adjacent continental landmasses and serves as a route of dispersal for plants and animals.

    Category: Geology

Origin of land bridge:

1895–1900

Wiktionary

  1. land bridge(Noun)

    in biogeography: an isthmus or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses

  2. land bridge(Noun)

    Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is from Ireland by ferry to the UK, by road to the opposite coast, then ferry to France.


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