tropicopolitanadj.
/ˌtrɒpᵻkəʊˈpɒlᵻt(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌtrɑpəkəˈpɑlətn/, /ˌtrɑpəkəˈpɑlədən/ Chiefly Zoology.
Belonging to or inhabiting the whole of the tropics, or tropical regions generally. Cf. pantropical adj.
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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).
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adj.1858