Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

population bottleneck

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables: pop-u-la-tion bot-tle-neck
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sudden, and normally temporary decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation.

Inflected Forms

population bottlenecks (plural)

Synonyms

genetic bottleneck

Questions

What does population bottleneck mean?: A sudden, and normally temporary decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation.

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