A sudden (normally temporary) decrease in a population typically due to a stressful situation

A plant of the species Stylophorum diphyllum

A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, United States.

(law) A process in which the major political parties compete with each other to be tough on crime.

Synonym of penal populism

plural of popadam

Alternative spelling of papadam

The opposite of what most laypeople would think is true.

A graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a country or region of the world) by age groups and sex; it typically forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.

A population that is inferred to have existed based on data that has been reconstructed rather than on direct sampling.