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co-adaptation

co-adaptation noun: a mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.

Noun

co-adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural co-adaptations)

  1. A mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.
    • Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of...1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 109

Forms of co-adaptation

pluralco-adaptations
alternative formcoadaptation

Origin of co-adaptation

From co- + adaptation.

Questions about co-adaptation

What does co-adaptation mean?
Co-adaptation means a mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.
What part of speech is co-adaptation?
Co-adaptation is a noun.
What is the plural of co-adaptation?
The plural of co-adaptation is co-adaptations.

Words near co-adaptation in the dictionary

  1. co-acting
  2. co-acts
  3. co-Adamite
  4. co-Adamites
  5. co-Adamitism
  6. co-adaptation
  7. co-adaptations
  8. CO-ADD
  9. co-adjutrix
  10. co-administration
  11. co-administrations

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