单词 | tropicopolitan |
释义 | tropicopolitanadj. Chiefly Zoology. Belonging to or inhabiting the whole of the tropics, or tropical regions generally. Cf. pantropical adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [adjective] > biogeographical Hudsonian1835 Nearctic1858 neotropical1858 Palaearctic1858 palaeogean1858 palaeotropical1858 tropicopolitan1858 subregional1870 neotropic1877 Notogaean1879 Indogaean1885 Ornithogaean1890 Pontic1891 Notogaeic1896 ecogeographical1939 ecogeographic1951 1858 A. Günther in Proc. Zool. Soc. 383 There remain a great many species which, comprised in one genus, do not give us the idea of a cosmopolitan genus, but of a ‘tropicopolitan’. 1879 A. R. Wallace in 19th Cent. Feb. 254 The tropical land..which afforded the passage of the tropicopolitan forms from one continent to the other. 1910 W. M. Wheeler Ants xvi. 269 Jerdon confirmed these observations on..Solenopsis rufa, a subspecies of the tropicopolitan S. geminata. 1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 737 Termitaphididae... Nine species in this tropicopolitan family. 2004 C. Scott Endangered & Threatened Animals Florida iv. 63/2 Vegetation is composed predominantly of tropicopolitan, ever-green, broad-leaved trees and shrubs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1858 |
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