hyperallometric
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hyper- + allometric.
Adjective
[edit]hyperallometric (not comparable)
- (of a population) That grows at a more than an allometric rate
- 2015 December 19, “Body Size Adaptations to Altitudinal Climatic Variation in Neotropical Grasshoppers of the Genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae)”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The relationship between male and female thorax length was significantly hyperallometric, indicating a greater evolutionary divergence in male body size, even though the other traits showed isometric relationships.