bradytelic

bradytelic adjective: of or relating to bradytely.

Adjective

bradytelic (comparative more bradytelic, superlative most bradytelic)

Of or relating to bradytely.
- A distinction is to be made between slow horotelic rates and bradytelic rates, also slow but essentially a different phenomenon, as demonstrated by the marked difference in survivorship pattern, from which the existence of bradytelic rates have been deduced.1944, George G. Simpson, Tempo and mode in evolution, Columbia University Press, page 133
- This low-rate, nonnhorotelic excess is bradytely and the rates involved in it are bradytelic.1953, George G. Simpson, The Major Features of Evolution, Columbia University Press, pages 313–337

மந்தப்பூர்த்திக்குரிய

Bradytelic — when organisms evolve at exceptionally slow rate.1978, Vishwambhar Puri, The so-called primitive angiosperms:
Slow bradytelic evolvers are famous as living fossils.2001, J. William Schopf, Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 212:

comparative	more bradytelic
superlative	most bradytelic

From bradytely + -ic.

What does bradytelic mean?: Bradytelic means of or relating to bradytely.
What is bradytelic in Tamil?: Bradytelic in Tamil is மந்தப்பூர்த்திக்குரிய. See Bradytelic meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bradytelic in a sentence?: Bradytelic — when organisms evolve at exceptionally slow rate.
What part of speech is bradytelic?: Bradytelic is an adjective.

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