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circumglobal

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Etymology

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From circum- +‎ global.

Adjective

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circumglobal (comparative more circumglobal, superlative most circumglobal)

  1. (chiefly zoology) Around the world; spanning the globe.
    • 2015 July 31, “Predicting Consumer Biomass, Size-Structure, Production, Catch Potential, Responses to Fishing and Associated Uncertainties in the World’s Marine Ecosystems”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Consumer production is highest in a circumglobal band around the equator, in other upwellings in low and mid latitudes, the North Pacific and in the south Atlantic Ocean east of Argentina (Fig 2B, S2 Fig ).

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