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postisolation en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English isolation English postisolation From post- + isolation.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Occurring after a period of isolation.
    • In this case, the HABC results infer long-term persistence of populations in isolated refugia for all three species, even when allowing for postisolation migration. 2009 February 6, Ana Carolina Carnaval et al., “Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 785–789: