"protocontinent" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "proto- + continent",
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      "form": "protocontinents",
      "tags": [
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          "ref": "2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55",
          "text": "There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south, but stretching from the Turgai Strait in the east to Scandinavia in the north, a European proto-continent was beginning to take shape, one that no amount of rising seas or shifting tectonic plates has divided since.",
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        "A landmass capable of becoming a continent."
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          "word": "proto-continent"
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  "word": "protocontinent"
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