A line (on a map, etc.) joining places where a particular biological phenomenon is exhibited in the same way, such as where plants flower at the same time (an isanthesic) or where the same proportion of clines is found.
Origin
+ the first element of phenology, the word having been first used to refer to phenological phenomena.
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