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Greek administrative area
Answer for the clue "Greek administrative area ", 4 letters:
deme
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In biology , a deme is a term for a local population of polytypic species that actively interbreed with one another and share a distinct gene pool . When demes are isolated for a very long time they can become distinct subspecies or species . The term deme ...
Usage examples of deme.
So we have to sing across the wire at night and try to recruit boys into our demes that way.
For all she knew, demes were just what children tried on for practice.
The division into demes or wards, whence comes the word democracy, was a real territorial division, not personal nor genealogical.
For which, whan I hadde longe avysed me, I demed hym som Chanoun for to be.
Thenne he carped to the kny3t, criande loude, "Yghe han demed to do the dede that I bidde.
Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more.
Explicit secunda pars Sequitur pars tercia I trowe men wolde deme it necligence, If I foryete to tellen the dispence Of Theseus, that gooth so bisily To maken up the lystes roially.