0 past simple and past participle of disperse --
1 to spread across or move away over a large area, or to make something do this: --
So lots of viable seeds were dispersed by bats through excretion.
When refugees proved reluctant to be 'dispersed', government dismissed their resistance as 'irrational'.
Instead, blood collection is delegated to several public hospitals dispersed throughout the country.
With heavy infections the worms become widely dispersed along the intestine.
Moreover, the evidence that exists is much more widely dispersed than evidence of the effectiveness of clinical interventions.
In conclusion, the species can regenerate without elephants, but may have in the past been dispersed mostly by elephants.
They typically evolve to use resources quickly and produce abundant seed that is widely dispersed and remains dormant until abundant resources are again available22.
Whether this is typical of parasitic nematodes is an open question since the few species analysed have been actively dispersed by human activities.
