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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Occupying geographic areas that are partially overlapping or have a partial barrier between them. Used of organisms, especially populations of the same or closely related species.
  • adjective Occurring among populations having such a distribution.

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  • adjective 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.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[para– + Greek patrā, fatherland (from patēr, patr-, father; see pəter- in Indo-European roots) + –ic.]

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