English Explanatory Dictionary

population bottleneck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sudden, and normally temporary decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation.

Word forms

population bottleneck population bottlenecks

Synonyms

genetic bottleneck
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