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Interbreed vs Sympatric - What's the difference?

interbreed | sympatric |

As a verb interbreed

is to breed or reproduce within an isolated community.

As an adjective sympatric is

(biology|genetics) occurring in the same, or in overlapping, territory, especially of species that do not interbreed.

interbreed

English

Verb

  • To breed or reproduce within an isolated community.
  • To breed or reproduce within a heterogenous community, the products of which produce hybrids.

    • References

    * * English irregular verbs

    sympatric

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (biology, genetics) Occurring in the same, or in overlapping, territory, especially of species that do not interbreed.
  • *2004 , (Richard Dakwins), The Ancestor's Tale , Phoenix 2005, p. 349:
  • *:There is some evidence of sympatric speciation of cichlid fish in small African crater lakes.

    • Hypernyms

    * (living in same territory without interbreeding) speciation

    Coordinate terms

    * allopatric * peripatric * parapatric