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Disjunct

adjective
1.
Progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second.
2.
Having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects.
3.
Marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements.  Synonym: isolated.
4.
Used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations.





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"Disjunct" Quotes from Famous Books



... Helix or Spiral Line of the Ships Course would be reduced to a more precise exactness, than ever was pretended by Him: and this most Noble and Useful Science (as He justly calls it) which is the Bond of most disjunct Countries, and the Consociation of Nations farthest remote, would attain ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various
... and northern Oaxaca, Mexico, southeastward through Central America to northwestern Ecuador; one species disjunct in Amazonian Ecuador. ...
— The Genera of Phyllomedusine Frogs (Anura Hylidae) • William E. Duellman


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