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population bottleneck

population bottleneck noun: a sudden, and normally temporary decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation.

Noun

population bottleneck (plural population bottlenecks)

  1. A sudden, and normally temporary decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation.

Synonyms of population bottleneck

Forms of population bottleneck

pluralpopulation bottlenecks

Questions about population bottleneck

What does population bottleneck mean?
Population bottleneck means a sudden, and normally temporary decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation.
What part of speech is population bottleneck?
Population bottleneck is a noun.
What is the plural of population bottleneck?
The plural of population bottleneck is population bottlenecks.

Words near population bottleneck in the dictionary

  1. populating
  2. population
  3. population biologist
  4. population biologists
  5. population biology
  6. population bottleneck
  7. population bottlenecks
  8. population densities
  9. population density
  10. population dynamics
  11. population genetics

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