Home › Words › D › dispersalismdispersalismdispersalism means A biogeographical approach based on the idea of organisms being dispersed from their origin to other places.EtymologyFrom dispersal + -ism.nounA biogeographical approach based on the idea of organisms being dispersed from their origin to other places.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dispersalistic 71% match — dispersalist vs dispersalism →dispersalist 71% match — Relating to, or caused by dispersal vs dispersalism →dispersal 63% match — The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion. vs dispersalism →geodispersal 62% match — The erosion of barriers to gene flow and biological dispersal. vs dispersalism →dispersoidological 61% match — Relating to dispersoidology. vs dispersalism →dispersional 59% match — Relating to, or formed by dispersion vs dispersalism →panbiogeography 56% match — A cartographic extension to biogeography. vs dispersalism →vicarianism 56% match — The biogeographical theory that vicariance is responsible for the differences between species. vs dispersalism →