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palaeospecies

palaeospecies is the alternative form of paleospecies.

Meaning of paleospecies

Noun

paleospecies (plural paleospecies)

  1. A species that is derived from the paleontological record; chronospecies.
    • The problem of recognizing paleospecies is linked to a more fundamental problem in taxonomy —determining how species should be segregated.1996, Donald E. Johanson, Donald C. Johanson, Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language

Forms of palaeospecies

pluralpalaeospecies

Questions about palaeospecies

What is palaeospecies the alternative form of?
Palaeospecies is the alternative form of paleospecies.

Words near palaeospecies in the dictionary

  1. palaeosoil
  2. palaeosoils
  3. palaeosol
  4. palaeosolic
  5. palaeosols
  6. palaeospecies
  7. palaeospinothalamic
  8. palaeosubduction
  9. palaeosubductions
  10. palaeosubspecies
  11. palaeosurface

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palaeospecies (page history and authors); paleospecies (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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