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species barriers

species barriers is the plural of species barrier.

Meaning of species barrier

Noun

species barrier (plural species barriers)

  1. The inability of a disease to be transmitted from one species to a different one.
    • The people had died because they ate meat from infected cows. A species barrier had crumbled.2003 June 3, Sandra Blakeslee, “Mad Cows, Sane Cats: Making Sense of the 'Species Barrier'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about species barriers

What is species barriers the plural of?
Species barriers is the plural of species barrier.

Words near species barriers in the dictionary

  1. specieist
  2. specieists
  3. species
  4. species aggregate
  5. species barrier
  6. species barriers
  7. species complex
  8. species complexes
  9. species dysphoria
  10. species epithet
  11. species epithets

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