Sympatry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of the same (or overlapping) geographical areas, by populations of related species, without interbreeding.
  2. 2
    the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύν (sún, “with, in company with, together with”) + πᾰτρῐ́ς (pătrĭ́s, “fatherland”).

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