different between population vs subspecies

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus. Doublet of poblacion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?pj??le???n/
• IPA^(key): /p?pju??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

population (plural populations)

1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

2. (by extension) The people with a given characteristic.

3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

4. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

5. (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
   • 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.

     […] it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.

6. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

Related terms

• popular
• populate
• populous

Translations

Danish

Noun

population

1. (statistics) population

Declension

See also

• stikprøve (“sample”)

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Late Latin popul?ti?, popul?ti?nem from Latin populus (“people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.py.la.sj??/

Noun

population f (plural populations)

1. A population

Related terms

• populaire
• populeux
• peuple

Further reading

• “population” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

population (plural populationes)

1. population

English

Etymology

sub- +? species.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?s?bspi??i?z/, /-??z/, /-si?z/
• Hyphenation: sub?spe?cies

Noun

subspecies (plural subspecies)

1. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below species.
2. (taxonomy) A taxon at that rank, often indicated with trinomial nomenclature (such as Felis silvestris silvestris in zoology and Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii in botany).
3. A subdivision of a species in other scientific disciplines.

Synonyms

• (abbreviations): ssp., subsp.

Derived terms

Related terms

• infraspecific
• infraspecific epithet
• subspecific
• subspecific epithet
• subspecific name

Translations

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sub?spe.ki.e?s/, [s??p?s?p?kie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sup?spe.t??i.es/, [sup?sp??t??i?s]

Noun

subspeci?s f (genitive subspeci??); fifth declension

1. subspecies

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Further reading

• subspecies on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la