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co-adaptations

co-adaptations is the plural of co-adaptation.

Meaning of co-adaptation

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

Questions about co-adaptations

What is co-adaptations the plural of?
Co-adaptations is the plural of co-adaptation.

Words near co-adaptations in the dictionary

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

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