noun
Usage: usually capitalized J
Etymology: after David S. Jordan died 1931 American naturalist
: a generalization in evolutionary biology: closely related organisms tend to occupy adjacent rather than identical or distant ranges
noun
Usage: usually capitalized J
Etymology: after David S. Jordan died 1931 American naturalist
: a generalization in evolutionary biology: closely related organisms tend to occupy adjacent rather than identical or distant ranges
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012