PANTROPICAL

pantropical, pantropic

(adjective) distributed throughout the tropics

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

pantropical (not comparable)

(biology) Occurring in tropical areas on all the major continents, i.e. in Africa, Asia and America.

Source: Wiktionary



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16 January 2025

BOOK

(noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; “they run things by the book around here”


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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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