Semelparity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Semelparity is a noun meaning (biology) The condition of being semelparous.
Meaning
(biology) The condition of being semelparous.
Example Sentences
2009, David Quammen, Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic (August 2009), page 37, "Unlike an Atlantic Salmon or most other species of vertebrate, a Pacific salmon breeds once and then dies. Scientists call the phenomenon semelparity."
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gemelliparity, semiprecociality, monoestry, iteroparity, seminomadism, biparentality.
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