widely distributed

1. 1.

   growing or occurring in many parts of the world

   “a cosmopolitan herb”

   “cosmopolitan in distribution”

   Synonymscosmopolitan

   ecology

Questions about widely distributed

What does widely distributed mean?

widely distributed means "growing or occurring in many parts of the world".

What is another word for widely distributed?

Close synonyms include cosmopolitan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is widely distributed a common word?

widely distributed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.