BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biogeographical region mean? 

• BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION (noun)
  The noun BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION has 1 sense:

1. an area of the Earth determined by distribution of flora and fauna

  Familiarity information: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area of the Earth determined by distribution of flora and fauna

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("biogeographical region" is a kind of...):

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biogeographical region"):

benthic division; benthonic zone; benthos (a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones)