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alternate generations

alternate generations is the plural of alternate generation.

Meaning of alternate generation

Noun

alternate generation (plural alternate generations)

  1. Each of the two forms of an organism whose life cycle involves alternation of generations, or the fact of such alternation occurring in a given organism.
    • If, instead of a single individual, several were to be thus developed metagenetically within a pre-existing form, the process would be called one of alternate generation.1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

Questions about alternate generations

What is alternate generations the plural of?
Alternate generations is the plural of alternate generation.

Words near alternate generations in the dictionary

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