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transpopulation

transpopulation noun: the population of transgender people, particularly in a specific region.

Noun

transpopulation (plural transpopulations)

  1. The population of transgender people, particularly in a specific region.
    • I am not aware of any ethnographic or historical projects whose sole focus is some aspect of a Latina/o transpopulation.2009, Marcia Ochoa, “Latina/o Transpopulations”, in Marysol Asencio, editor, Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies, page 236
    • The legislation extended certain ‘rights’ to some within the wider transpopulation to the exclusion of others.2011, Christie Elan-Cane, “Fighting for legal and social recognition outside the gendered societal structure”, in Alice Purnell, Jed Bland, editors, Trans in the Twenty First Century: Concerning...
  2. The act of altering one or more populations by the introduction of a different population or the removal of a particular subpopulation.
    • It should be remarked, that as dynasties changed the transpopulation which made Babylon decline was frequently repeated; as under Seleucus, for the benefit of Seleucia, so under the Parthians for the benefit of Ctesiphon, under the Arabs for that of Baghdad.1866, Rowland Williams, The Hebrew Prophets Translated Afresh from the Original, […] , volume 1, Williams and Norgate, →OCLC, page 297
    • Transpopulation of these hemopoietic and lymphopoietic tissues back to host-type tissue was induced by the intravenous injection of spleen, but not so far by lymph node, cells isologous with the host.1963, “8436 A/CONF.15/P/97”, in The Effects of Radiation and Radioisotopes on the Life Processes: […] , US Atomic Energy Commission, →OCLC, page 990

Forms of transpopulation

pluraltranspopulations

Origin of transpopulation

From trans- + population.

Questions about transpopulation

What does transpopulation mean?
Transpopulation means the population of transgender people, particularly in a specific region.
What part of speech is transpopulation?
Transpopulation is a noun.
What is the plural of transpopulation?
The plural of transpopulation is transpopulations.

Words near transpopulation in the dictionary

  1. transpooled
  2. transpooling
  3. transpools
  4. transpoosion
  5. transpoosions
  6. transpopulation
  7. transpopulations
  8. transporionic
  9. transport
  10. transport caf
  11. transport cafs

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