Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology: Not found within a given limit of geographical distribution or zoögeographical area: as, an extralimital species.
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- adjective From
beyond aboundary orlimit
Etymologies
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Examples
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These extralimital records are all apparently due to human introduction however.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Salishan, Athapascan, and others can be had without including extralimital territory.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Three families are, indeed, mainly extralimital in their position, viz: Yuman, the great body of the tribes of which family inhabited the peninsula of Lower California;
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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