circumglobal

English

Etymology

From circum- +‎ global.

Adjective

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, →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 ).

Derived terms

• circumglobally