species-specific
Americanadjective
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Fish and Wildlife Service creates a species-specific rule saying otherwise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
“Instead, it depends heavily on regional climate, elevation and species-specific biology.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
Fruit flies rely not only on chemical signals to mate, but also on the singing of species-specific songs, which they produce by vibrating their wings.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
In a statement to Nature, the agency said that certain aspects of cephalopod research, such as pain perception and species-specific husbandry, are still being studied.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023
It is the most compulsively collective, genetically programmed, species-specific, and autonomic of all the things we do, and we are infallible at it.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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