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interspecies

American  
[in-ter-spee-sheez, -seez] / ˌɪn tərˈspi ʃiz, -siz /
Also interspecific

adjective

  1. existing or occurring between species.


Etymology

Origin of interspecies

First recorded in 1915–20; inter- + species

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The team then used lab techniques to mimic repeated transmission of a human-origin virus in mice, testing the protein's role in the pace of mutations that lead to interspecies adaptation.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2024

But researchers have debated when and how often that interspecies mingling happened.

From Science Magazine May 22, 2024

Her videos reveal moving expressions of interspecies bonding, with dogs voraciously licking her face, or melting into her lap as she massages them.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 8, 2024

Biologist Dr Rachel Grant, at London South Bank University, says such interspecies "adoptions" are likely the result of "fixed action patterns", in which the adopting animal is responding to a "certain trigger" from the adoptee.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2023

But the way she helped me—as no human, really, could have helped me—by breaking down the interspecies interlock and letting her mind come into my thinking...There was such care, such love.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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