xenoparous

From Latin xeno- (“strangeness”) + pariō (“give birth, produce, bring forth”), equivalent to xeno- +‎ -parous. Coined by Yannick Juvé and colleagues in 2025.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛn.əpərəs/

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xenoparous (not comparable)

1. (biology) Of or relating to a reproductive strategy in which a female produces offspring of a different species without a process of hybridization.
   • 2025 September 3, Y. Juvé, C. Lutrat, A. Ha, et al., “One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants”, in Nature‎^[1], →DOI:

     We suggest defining such females as xenoparous, meaning they need to produce individuals of another species as part of their life cycle. This shows the evolution of xenoparity (xeno-, meaning ‘foreign, strange, different’, and -parity, meaning ‘produce, bring forth, give birth’), which is the need to propagate another species’ genome by means of its own eggs. […] We suggest defining such females as xenoparous, meaning they need to produce individuals of another species as part of their life cycle.

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