English-speaking world. (Redirected from Anglophone) Pie chart showing the percentage of native English speakers living in inner circle English-speaking countries. Native speakers are now substantially outnumbered worldwide by second-language speakers of English (not counted in this chart).
cosmopolitan - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; a cosmopolitan herb; cosmopolitan in distribution. widely distributed. bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment.
For example, the family Myrmeleontidae is cosmopolitan in the sense that every continent except Antarctica is home to some indigenous species within the Myrmeleontidae, but nonetheless no one species, nor even genus, of the Myrmeleontidae is cosmopolitan.