semelparity

noun

semelparity

noun

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Biology, Natural sciences The condition of being semelparous

2009, David Quammen, Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic (August 2009), page 37, "Unlike an Atlantic Salmon or most other species of vertebrate, a Pacific salmon breeds once and then dies. Scientists call the phenomenon semelparity."

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