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paleotropics

paleotropics is the alternative form of palaeotropics.

Meaning of palaeotropics

Noun

palaeotropics pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The tropics of "the old world", the tropical areas of both Africa and Asia. Used in biology (rare), pertaining to area of geographical occurrence.

Origin of paleotropics

From paleo- + tropics.

Questions about paleotropics

What is paleotropics the alternative form of?
Paleotropics is the alternative form of palaeotropics.

Words near paleotropics in the dictionary

  1. paleotransported
  2. paleotree
  3. paleotrees
  4. paleotrophodynamics
  5. paleotropical
  6. paleotropics
  7. Paleotropis
  8. paleotsunami
  9. paleotsunamis
  10. paleotype
  11. paleotypes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paleotropics (page history and authors); palaeotropics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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