a. Nat. Hist. [f. TROPIC, after COSMOPOLITAN.] Belonging to or inhabiting the whole of the tropics, or tropical regions generally.
1878. P. L. Sclater, in 19th Cent., Dec., 1050. ‘Tropicopolitan’ forms, by which I mean tropical forms that are found in the tropics of both hemispheres.
1879. A. R. Wallace, ibid., Feb., 254. To Mr. Sclater’s question—Where did the tropical land exist which afforded the passage of the tropicopolitan forms from one continent to the other?
1895. C. Dixon, in Fortn. Rev., April, 652. We have many tropicopolitan families that are confined absolutely to the great equatorial zone round the entire earth.
