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Amphigean

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Amphigean
    Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. amphigean
    Extending around the earth: in botany, applied to genera or species that are found around the globe in approximately the same latitude.
  2. amphigean
    [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. Together with the Dendrogean or tropical American realm, it composes the Neotropical region of Sclater.
  3. amphigean
    In botany, bearing flowers from a rootstock.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Gr. + , , the earth