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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue.

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  • adjective distributed throughout the tropics

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  • Population includes both unmodified and pantropic humans.

    June 22nd, 2007 2007

  • The mahoe is pantropic, growing just inshore of the mangroves on the coastal fringe and extending up estuaries and rivers.

    Chapter 5 1983

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