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terra emersa

Definitions of terra emersa
  1. noun
    the solid part of the earth's surface
    synonyms: secco, terra, terreno
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    examples:
    Americhe
    North America and South America and Central America
    Anatolia
    a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
    porcellana
    a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
    Cuba
    the largest island in the West Indies
    Haiti
    an island in the West Indies
    Trinidad
    an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela
    Cipro
    an island in the eastern Mediterranean
    Fiji
    a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
    Sardegna
    an island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy
    Sicilia
    the largest island in the Mediterranean
    Oceania
    a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
    Arabia
    a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
    Gran Bretagna
    an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
    Irlanda
    an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
    Montserrat
    an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
    Islanda
    a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle
    Corea
    an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook
    Malta
    a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea
    Nuova Zelanda
    North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
    Tahiti
    an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin
    Africa
    the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
    Antartide
    an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
    Asia
    the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
    Australia
    the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
    Europa
    the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
    types:
    arcipelago
    a group of many islands in a large body of water
    capo, promontorio
    a strip of land projecting into a body of water
    pista
    the ground on which people and animals move about
    bosco, selva
    land that is covered with trees and shrubs
    isola
    a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
    continente, terraferma
    the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula
    penisola
    a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
    continente
    one of the large landmasses of the earth
    spianata
    a level tract of land
    landa
    open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
    nevaio
    a permanent wide expanse of snow
    lingua
    a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
    subcontinente
    a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent
    tundra
    a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen
    type of:
    cosa, oggetto
    a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
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