cœnospeciesn.
/ˈsiːnəʊˌspiːʃiːz/ Biology.
A group of species capable of hybridization with one another.
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1922 G. Turesson in Hereditas 3 345 It seems appropriate..to denote the total sum of possible combinations in a genotype by the term coenospecies... I take the opportunity of thanking Mr. Otto R. Holmberg, Conservator of the Botanical Museum of Lund, for the coining of this term.
1939 Nature 11 Nov. 822/2 G. Tischler..stated that at least 400 wild cœnospecies of Angiosperms are known which contain races with chromosomal differences.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 177/1 Coenospecies. This term was first used by G. Turesson (1922) for the sum total of possible combinations of a genotype compound as seen particularly through cultivation under artificial conditions. The term has also been used to include groups of species separated only by extrinsic barriers to gene flow.
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