English Explanatory Dictionary

catastrophic mortality

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The process by which individuals in a population die off in large numbers as part of a single event (rather than one by one, from a variety of causes).

Word forms

catastrophic mortality

Antonyms

attritional mortality
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