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preadaptation

noun

Etymology

From pre- + adaptation.

  1. derived from adaptō
  2. derived from adaptātiō
  3. borrowed from adaptation
  4. prefixed as preadaptation — “pre + adaptation”

Definitions

  1. An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different…

    An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preadaptation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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