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Widely distributed   /wˈaɪdli dɪstrˈɪbjətəd/   Listen
Widely distributed

adjective
1.
Growing or occurring in many parts of the world.  Synonym: cosmopolitan.  "Cosmopolitan in distribution"






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"Widely distributed" Quotes from Famous Books



... Widely distributed advertisements also brought to light the nurses of the two children; both the nurse who had taken Julia out to Russia and the woman who had been with Mrs. Meredith when she took over the charge of the McConachan ...
— The Ashiel mystery - A Detective Story • Mrs. Charles Bryce

... clam bake gave us great encouragement. We soon learned that the bivalves were to be found in almost unlimited quantity and were widely distributed. The harvest was ready twice a day, when the tide was out, and we need have no fear of a famine even if cast away in ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker

... OF SHEEP.—The most widely distributed and seemingly most injurious intestinal worm of sheep is the OEsopliagostomum columbianum. It is a small worm from 0.5 to 0.75 inch (12 to 18 mm.) long. It penetrates the lining membrane of the intestines and encysts in the intestinal wall. ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.

... the dilemma propounded, suppose we try it upon that category of thought which we call chair. This is a genus, comprising a common chair (Sella vulgaris), arm or easy chair (S. cathedra), the rocking-chair (S. oscillans)—widely distributed in the United States—and some others, each of which has sported, as the gardeners say, into many varieties. But now, as the genus and the species have no material existence, how can they vary? If only individual chairs exist, how can the differences ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray

... widely distributed: it is found in America, and in most European countries, especially on the shores of ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various


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