WIDELY DISTRIBUTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does widely distributed mean? 

• WIDELY DISTRIBUTED (adjective)
  The adjective WIDELY DISTRIBUTED has 1 sense:

1. growing or occurring in many parts of the world

  Familiarity information: WIDELY DISTRIBUTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIDELY DISTRIBUTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Growing or occurring in many parts of the world

Synonyms:

cosmopolitan; widely distributed

Context example:

cosmopolitan in distribution

Domain category:

bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)

 Context examples 

But debates continue about the origins of the water, whether it is widely distributed and how much might be present.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

Large-scale copy number polymorphisms are common and widely distributed in the human genome.

(Copy Number Polymorphism, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of filamentous fungi in the phylum Ascomycota that is widely distributed in soil and in association with plants.

(Fusarium, NCI Thesaurus)

Adenylyl cyclase is encoded by the ADCY9 gene and widely distributed.

(Adenylate Cyclase, NCI Thesaurus)

Mucus-secreting cells are widely distributed through the body.

(Mucus-Secreting Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

An autosomal dominant disorder characterized by a widely distributed, well-demarcated hyperkeratosis of the palms and soles.

(Diffuse Palmoplantar Keratoderma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Diatoms are one of the most abundant, widely distributed primary producers in the ocean.

(Diatom, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

A phylum of bacteria composed of three large classes of bacteria that are widely distributed in the environment, including in soil, in sediments, sea water and in the guts of animals.

(Bacteroidetes, NCI Thesaurus)

For one of the two OPRM1 variants studied, pain complaints were predicted by reward feedback-related responses in a more widely distributed brain area, including the ventral striatum.

(Study in Teens Shows Brain Responses to Rewards Linked to Pain Sensitivity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Free nerve endings are widely distributed throughout the body, and are found as branches of unmyelinated, or lightly myelinated fibres grouped in bundles beneath the epithelium.

(Free Nerve Ending, NCI Thesaurus)