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ghost populations

ghost populations is the plural of ghost population.

Meaning of ghost population

Noun

ghost population (plural ghost populations)

  1. A population that is inferred to have existed based on data that has been reconstructed rather than on direct sampling.
    • The Ancient North-Eurasians are a ghost population whose existence can be inferred from analysis of European and Native American genes.

Questions about ghost populations

What is ghost populations the plural of?
Ghost populations is the plural of ghost population.

Words near ghost populations in the dictionary

  1. ghost plane
  2. ghost planes
  3. ghost plant
  4. ghost plants
  5. ghost population
  6. ghost populations
  7. ghost post
  8. ghost posts
  9. ghost prisoner
  10. ghost prisoners
  11. ghost project

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ghost populations (page history and authors); ghost population (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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