hyperallometric

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English

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Etymology

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From hyper- +‎ allometric.

Adjective

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hyperallometric (not comparable)

  1. (of a population) That grows at a more than an allometric rate
    • 2015 December 19, “Body Size Adaptations to Altitudinal Climatic Variation in Neotropical Grasshoppers of the Genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae)”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      The relationship between male and female thorax length was significantly hyperallometric, indicating a greater evolutionary divergence in male body size, even though the other traits showed isometric relationships.

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