Designating plants and animals native to or characteristic of southern latitudes, or southern parts of… In the names of plants and plant…

Designating animals and plants native to or (supposedly) originating in Africa. See also compounds 2.

Designating animals and plants native to or originating in Asia.

Designating animals and plants native to or originating in America, chiefly to distinguish them from similar or related species native to Britain…

Of animals and plants: bred or grown in the West Indies, Latin America, etc., and associated with the Creoles (in contrast to those of indigenous…

Of or belonging to, native or peculiar to, California; esp. in the names of species of birds, beasts, and plants.

Designating plants and animals native to or inhabiting a subalpine habitat.

Chiefly Botany. Of or relating to a biogeographical region comprising the southernmost land masses, islands, and seas; spec. denoting a floristic…

Biology and Geology. Designating flora, fauna, rocks, etc., characteristic of regions around Adelaide; of or relating to such flora, etc. In later…

Botany. In the terminology of A. Blytt: designating the earliest of the successive periods of vegetation in Scandinavia after the glacial period…

Applied by Blytt to one of the successive periods of vegetation in Scandinavia after the glacial period, and later by others to the climate of other…

Of plants, etc.: Belonging to the Old World (i.e. the eastern hemisphere).

Designating a subdivision of the Upper Cretaceous period, corresponding to the Lower Chalk and Upper Greensand of British geologists; of flora…

Biology. Of plants or animals, having their origin in south-western Europe, esp. Portugal.

= pantropical, adj.

Of a plant or animal: occurring in all regions of the tropics; (of a species' distribution) covering all tropical regions.

Of a country, region, etc.: that is the place of a person's birth and early life; that is the place of origin of a plant or animal. Occasionally with…