Definition of "pantropic" []

• Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Population includes both unmodified and pantropic humans."
• "The mahoe is pantropic, growing just inshore of the mangroves on the coastal fringe and extending up estuaries and rivers."