The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conspecific \Con`spe*cif"ic\ (k[o^]n`sp[-e]*s[i^]f"[i^]k), a. Of the same species.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context taxonomy English) relating to the same species n. An organism belonging to the same species as another
WordNet
adj. belonging to the same species; "cultivated cabbage and wild cabbage are conspecific"
n. an organism belonging to the same species as another organism
Usage examples of "conspecific".
And Pinkie said, "Now you will answer our questions about those conspecific persons called 'Scuzzhawks.
How was it possible that some of my conspecifics could achieve sexual gratification just by inflicting pain on others?
The Greatmother was thrilled to meet a conspecific who had endured the vile captivity of the Others.
And Pinkie said, “Now you will answer our questions about those conspecific persons called ‘Scuzzhawks.
Peridermium coloradense on spruce (Picea) has long been considered conspecific with Melampsorella caryophyllacearum Schroet.
The man who had raped her—Mary’s conspecific, a member ofHomo sapiens —had been a beast.
At intervals it hands down decrees, declaring that Zauschneria californica (a common plant in rock gardens) is to be known henceforth as Epilobium canum or that Aglaothamnion tenuissimum may now be regarded as conspecific with Aglaothamnion byssoides, but not with Aglaothamnion pseudobyssoides.
Natural selection is not just a struggle between species (entire populations), nor is it just a struggle between individuals of different species, nor just between conspecific individuals of the same age and sex.
Koestler points out: ‘Homo sapiens is virtually unique in the animal kingdom in his lack of instinctive safeguards against the killing of conspecifics - members of his own species.
They referred to other students in their own faculties as their conspecifics, and to all other human beings as nonspecifics.