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satyrization

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satyrization (usually uncountable, plural satyrizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

(zoology, chiefly entomology) The situation where interspecific (interspecies) mating fails to produce hybrids and thus reduces the fitness of the species involved. [from late 20th c.]

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