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species-specific

[spee-sheez-spi-sif-ik, spee-seez-]
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adjective Ecology.
  1. associated with or limited to one species only.
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  • It is, in any event, possible to treat breeding schedules as species-specific characters, for any one geographic area.

    The Breeding Birds of Kansas

    Richard F. Johnston

species-specific in Medicine

species-specific

adj.
  1. Limited to or found only in one species.
  2. Of or being a serum that acts only upon a member of the same species as that from which the original antigen was obtained.
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