Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

species barrier

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English

Syllables: species bar-ri-er
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The inability of a disease to be transmitted from one species to a different one.

Example Sentences

"The people had died because they ate meat from infected cows. A species barrier had crumbled."
"The species barrier often is not an absolute barrier and refers to the difficulties in the transfer from one species to the next."

Inflected Forms

species barriers (plural)

Questions

What does species barrier mean?: The inability of a disease to be transmitted from one species to a different one.

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