Sympatric Definition

sĭm-pătrĭk
adjective
Of or pertaining to closely related species of organisms occurring in the same geographic area.
Webster's New World
Occurring among populations having such a distribution.
Sympatric speciation.
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Origin of Sympatric

  • syn– Greek patrā fatherland (from patēr patr- father pəter- in Indo-European roots) –ic

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From sympatry +"Ž -ic.

    From Wiktionary

Sympatric Sentence Examples

  • The graph shows observed parasitoid success after sympatric parasitism plotted against parasitoid success as predicted by the model.

  • Insects that live on a single host plant provide a model for sympatric speciation.

  • Canada Geese at the sympatric and allopatric sites ingested higher protein plant material than White-fronts at the sympatric site.

  • In many host-parasite systems parasites are better able to parasitise their sympatric host population than hosts from other populations of the same species.

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