[pan- + tropical]pan- 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
Examples of 'pantropical' in a sentence
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The family has a pantropical distribution and includes about 20 genera and 600 species.
Jéssica Vieira dos Santos, Teonildes Sacramento Nunes, Adilva de Souza Conceição 2016, 'The family Passifloraceae in APA Serra Branca/Raso da Catarina, Jeremoabo, Bahia,Brazil', Biotemashttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/biotemas/article/view/2175-7925.2016v29n1p11. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Accordingly, there existed extensive pantropical communication, particularly for nektonic animals capable of travelling large distances.
J. F. Betancort, A. Lomoschitz, J. Meco 2016, 'Early Pliocene fishes (Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes) from Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura(Canary Islands, Spain)', Estudios Geologicoshttp://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/947. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The percentages of species shared by the two continents are doubled when pantropical species are added.
Gradstein S. Robbert 2013, 'Afro-American Hepatics Revisited', Polish Botanical Journalhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pbj.2013.58.issue-1/pbj-2013-0016/pbj-2013-0016.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The occurrences of a large number of cosmopolitan species, and several tropicopolitan and pantropical species are notable.
Bhushan Kumar Sharma 2017, 'First report of freshwater rotifers (Rotifera: Eurotatoria) from south Andaman, India:Composition and interesting elements', Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversityhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2287884X17300316. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)