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deme

–noun

1.	one of the administrative divisions of ancient Attica and of modern Greece.

2.	Biology. a local population of organisms of the same kind, esp. one in which the genetic mix is similar throughout the group.

[Origin: 1620–30; < Gk dêmos a district, the people, commons

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n.

One of the townships of ancient Attica.
Ecology A local, usually stable population of interbreeding organisms of the same kind or species.

[Greek dēmos, people, land; see dā- in Indo-European roots.]

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A small, locally interbreeding group of organisms within a larger population. Demes are isolated reproductively from other members of their species, although the isolation may only be partial and is not necessarily permanent. Because they share a somewhat restricted gene pool, members of a deme generally differ morphologically to some degree from members of other demes. See also population.