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Definition of gregarious

Gregarious
Gregarious Gre*ga"ri*ous, a. [L. gregarius, fr. grex, gregis, herd; cf. Gr. ? to assemble, Skr. jar to approach. Cf. Congregate, Egregious.] Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone. --Burke. No birds of prey are gregarious. --Ray.

Meaning of gregarious from wikipedia

- individuals in an animal po****tion tend to ****ociate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies. Sociality is a survival response to...
- become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming gregarious. No taxonomic distinction is made between locust and gr****hopper species;...
- Flowering synchrony is the amount of overlap between flowering periods of plants in their mating season compared to what would be expected to occur randomly...
- The sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius), referred to as the sociable plover in the UK, is a wader in the plover family. It is a fully migratory bird...
- The gregarious short-tailed rat (Brachyuromys ramirohitra) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found only in Madagascar. Its natural...
- from a solitary, shorter-winged, highly fecund, non-migratory form to a gregarious, long-winged, and migratory phase in which they may travel long distances...
- The roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in both...
- socially dynamic, successful at networking, charismatic, and personally gregarious. Usually, social butterflies don’t belong to a particular group, but rather...
- mammoth–elephant hybrids. Because both species are [were] social and gregarious, creating a few specimens would not be ideal. The time and resources required...
- the gregarious phase. As the density of the po****tion increases the locust transforms progressively from the solitary phase towards the gregarious phase...