Successional
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Such an organism
Adjective
- 1 Of, related to or caused by succession not-comparable
"Surviving plant communities can be compared to their ancestors, and the differences between them reveal the changes wrought by climate, by pollution, by natural successional processes."
Example
More examples"Surviving plant communities can be compared to their ancestors, and the differences between them reveal the changes wrought by climate, by pollution, by natural successional processes."
Etymology
From succession + -al.
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