parapatric

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Adjective

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parapatric (not comparable)

  1. (biogeography, 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.
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Noun

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parapatric (plural parapatrics)

  1. Such an organism