EGAVE

speciation

About 0.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The process by which new distinct species evolve.
  2. noun The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
  3. noun The determination of which species are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.
    requirements specifying speciation and serotyping in addition to reporting of presence or absence

Similar words

sympatric species allopatric chemical characterisation characterization differentiation differentiating speciation event subspeciation

Often followed by

in of and is events by analysis process has

Word family

specciation speciate speciated speciates speciating speciational speciations

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