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 the Earth, from the tropics to the poles.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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  • JM attempted to sketch all amphigean instances of nothing but drew a blank.

    October 26, 2010