Usually means: Species coexist in the same area.
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  1. sympatry: Merriam-Webster
  2. sympatry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sympatry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sympatry: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. sympatry: Wiktionary
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  9. Sympatry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. sympatry: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sympatry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. sympatry: Mnemonic Dictionary

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  2. sympatry: Evolution Glossary

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▸ noun:  (biology) The use of the same (or overlapping) geographical areas, by populations of related species, without interbreeding.

Similar:
syntopy, synteny, allopatry, parabiosis, parallelism, mesosynteny, affinity, metapopulation, homogamy, paralogy, more...

Opposite:
allopatry, divergence, isolation

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Similar:
syntopy, synteny, allopatry, parabiosis, parallelism, mesosynteny, affinity, metapopulation, homogamy, paralogy, more...

Opposite:
allopatry, divergence, isolation



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