proto-Britain

English

Noun

proto-Britain

  1. The formations far back in geological time that resulted eventually in the British Isles.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55:
      There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south[.]
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