Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing flowers from a rootstock.
- Extending around the earth: in botany, applied to genera or species that are found around the globe in approximately the same latitude.
- [capitalized] [⟨ NL. Amphigæa + -an.] In zoögeog., a term applied to the temperate South American realm as one of the prime zoölogical divisions of the earth's land-surface, with reference to its equivocal or ambiguous zoölogical character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
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- adjective Extending over all the
zones of theEarth , from thetropics to thepoles .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word amphigean
JM attempted to sketch all amphigean instances of nothing but drew a blank.
October 26, 2010