Rassenkreis
noun
Ras·sen·kreis
ˈräsᵊnˌkrīs
plural Rassenkreise
-īzə
: a polytypic species especially when exhibiting a pattern of geographical replacement of one type by another
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from German, from Rassen-, variant in compounds of Rasse “race, population” (borrowed from French race, going back to Middle French, “group of people with a common ancestor”) + Kreis “circle, ring,” after earlier Formenkreis Formenkreis
- accumulator
- accumulators
- accuracies
- accuracy
- accurate
- accurately
- leasows
- least
- least bittern
- least common denominator
- least common multiple
- least flycatcher
- least of all
- least sandpiper
- least squares
- least tern
- least weasel
- leasts
- leastways
- leastwayser
- leastwaysest
- leastwise
- leastwiser
- leastwisest
- leat