Etymograph

English

heteromyopia

From hetero- + myopia, as the animals involved are metaphorically short-sighted in their view of other species.

Formed from hetero- + myopia

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros

Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros

Ancient Greek ἕτερος ‘other, another, different’

English hetero-

Ancient Greek μυωπία ‘shortsightedness’

English myopia

Today it means

noun The situation in which interspecific competition occurs over shorter distances than intraspecific competition.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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