xenoparous
Meanings
adj
- Of or relating to a reproductive strategy in which a female produces offspring of a different species without a process of hybridization.
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Etymology
From Latin xeno- (“strangeness”) + pariō (“give birth, produce, bring forth”), equivalent to xeno- + -parous. Coined by Yannick Juvé and colleagues in 2025.
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