conspecific
IPA: kʌnspʌsˈɪfɪk
noun
- An organism belonging to the same species as another.
adjective
- (taxonomy) relating to the same species
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Examples of "conspecific" in Sentences
- They are sometimes considered conspecific.
- Some authorities regard both as conspecific.
- The two are sometimes treated as conspecific.
- Pack is a social group of conspecific canids.
- The two were formerly considered conspecific.
- It has been considered conspecific with these species.
- This species may be conspecific with Faunis arcesilaus.
- It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the Velvet Scoter.
- Evidence of conspecific nest parasitism and egg discrimination in the sora.
- The Least Tern is itself often considered conspecific with the Little Tern.
- For some animals, the death of a conspecific is a little tinkle of the dinner bell.
- My work on moths dealt with the predominate mode of conspecific mate recognition in moths, the sex pheromone system.
- MCZ 1102, the holotype skull of Triceratops "eurycepahlus" Shlaikjer 1935 (now considered conspecific with T. horridus).
- Mills and Davenport (2002), The effect of a neighbouring conspecific versus the use of a mirror for the control of stereotypic weaving behaviour in the stabled horse.
- The Appenine shrew is endemic to Italy, and while formerly regarded by some as conspecific with the Common shrew, it is quite different, having a much shorter tail for example.
- It kinda reminds me about why Dogg the bounty hunter (a "joe the plumber" conspecific. wow ...) complained about his son's Black girlfreind forcing him to give up a "way of life".
- A familiar sender is here defined as a conspecific that was housed in the same cage as the subject at the time of testing, or had been separated from the subject no longer than six months before the testing started.
- This species is strongly dichromatic, meaning that the males and females have distinctive plumage colours and patterns -- a characteristic that distinguishes it from the monochromatic Cyprus pied wheatear, Oenanthe cypriaca, with which it was formerly considered to be conspecific.