attracted to or affecting many types of body tissues
Word origin
[1935–40; pan- + -tropic]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: aeroembolism, fluorocarbon, hard core, roadblock, roomettepan- is a combining form meaning “all,” occurring originally in loanwords from Greek (panacea; panoply), but now used freely as a general formative (panleukopenia; panorama; pantelegraph; pantheism; pantonality), and esp. in terms, formed at will, implying the union of all branches of a group(Pan-Christian; Panhellenic; Pan-Slavism). The hyphen and the second capital tend with longer use to be lost, unless theyare retained in order to set off clearly the component parts; -tropic is a combining form with the meanings “turned toward, with an orientation toward”that specified by the initial element (geotropic), “having an affinity for, affecting” what is specified (lipotropic; neurotropic; psychotropic), “affecting the activity of, maintaining” a specified organ (gonadotropic)
Examples of 'pantropic' in a sentence
pantropic
The flora in the study site was tropical in nature, characterized by pantropic distributions.
Xia-Lan Cheng, Lang-Xing Yuan, Mir Mohammad Nizamani, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Cynthia Ross Friedman,Hua-Feng Wang 2018, 'Taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of vascular plants at Ma'anling volcano urbanpark in tropical Haikou, China: Reponses to soil properties', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0198517. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)