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Afrotropical

adj
/ˌæf.ɹəʊˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/UK/ˌæf.ɹoʊˈtɹɑp.ɪ.kəl/US

Etymology

From Afro- + tropical.

  1. derived from τροπικός — “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”
  2. derived from tropicus — “of or pertaining to the solstice, as a noun, one of the tropics”
  3. suffixed as tropical — “tropic + al”
  4. prefixed as afrotropical — “Afro + tropical”

Definitions

  1. Belonging to the Afrotropic ecozone.

    • Objective 3 included the incorporation of several thousand additional specimens into the web-accessible, Afrotropical tephritid database (M. De Meyer and I. White) and the revision of Afrotropical dacines (White).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Afrotropical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA