ring species
Biology
noun
A group of closely related organisms, populations of which are distributed geographically in a ring-shaped cline, diverging in opposite directions and culminating in one point on the ring where two populations coexist but cannot interbreed.
Origin
1950s.
- Indo-Chinese
- indochinite
- indocile
- indocility
- in dock
- indoctrinate
- indoctrination
- indoctrinator
- indoctrinatory
- Indo-European
- Indo-Germanic
- Indo-Iranian
- indole
- indoleacetic acid
- indolence
- indolent
- indolently
- Indological
- Indologist
- Indology
- Indo-Malayan
- Indo-Malaysian
- Indo-Malesian
- indomethacin
- indomitability