philopatry

n. attachment to the place where an individual was born or hatched. In species with sex-biased dispersal, the nondispersing sex is said to show philopatry. If males typically leave the natal group to join other groups, the species shows female philopatry.

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ordinate

n. the vertical coordinate in a graph or data plot; that is, the y-axis. See also abscissa.