Pseudoextinction
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pseudoextinction is a noun meaning phyletic extinction; the situation where all members of a species are extinct, but members of a daughter species remain alive.
Meaning
phyletic extinction; the situation where all members of a species are extinct, but members of a daughter species remain alive.
Word Forms
- pseudoextinctions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paraspecies, coextinction, stabilomorphism, relict, relictualism, stabilomorph.
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