ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Parapatric

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Parapatric is an adjective meaning Such an organism.

Meaning

Such an organism.

More Meanings

  1. (biology, of organisms) Whose ranges do not significantly overlap but are immediately adjacent to each other; they only occur together in the narrow contact zone, if at all.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include speciation, sympatric, peripatric, allopatric, macrosympatric, stasipatric.

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