convivium

noun

con·​viv·​i·​um

-vēəm

plural convivia

-vēə

1

: a convivial gathering : banquet

2

[New Latin, from Latin] : a subdivision of a commiscuum comprising a group of organisms that are set apart by characters other than interfertility and are maintained by some isolating mechanism other than intersterility and usually equivalent in scope to a taxonomic subspecies or variety

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