| 释义 |
neoˈtropical, a.
[f. neo- + tropical a.]
Including, belonging to, or characteristic of, Tropical and South America as a zoogeographical region.
1858Sclater in Proc. Linn. Soc., Zool. II. 134 They are all quite foreign to Neotropical (Tropical American) Ornithology. Ibid. 143 Neotropical or South-American Region. 1877Coues Fur-Bearing Anim. i. 18 The extension of neotropical types over the nearctic region. 1881Nature XXIV. 209/2 In Ungulates, like the rest of the neotropical regions, the Argentine territory is poor. |