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tropicopolitan, a. Nat. Hist.|ˌtrɒpɪkəʊˈpɒlɪtən|
[f. tropic, after cosmopolitan.]
Belonging to or inhabiting the whole of the tropics, or tropical regions generally.
1878P. L. Sclater in 19th Cent. Dec. 1050 ‘Tropicopolitan’ forms, by which I mean tropical forms that are found in the tropics of both hemispheres. 1879A. R. Wallace ibid. Feb. 254 The tropical land..which afforded the passage of the tropicopolitan forms from one continent to the other. 1895C. Dixon in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 652 We have many tropicopolitan families that are confined absolutely to the great equatorial zone round the entire earth. |