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coadoption

coadoption noun: joint adoption.

Noun

coadoption (countable and uncountable, plural coadoptions)

  1. joint adoption
    • 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, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

Forms of coadoption

pluralcoadoptions

Origin of coadoption

From co- + adoption.

Questions about coadoption

What does coadoption mean?
Coadoption means joint adoption.
What part of speech is coadoption?
Coadoption is a noun.
What is the plural of coadoption?
The plural of coadoption is coadoptions.

Words near coadoption in the dictionary

  1. coadmit
  2. coadmits
  3. coadmittance
  4. coadmitted
  5. coadmitting
  6. coadoption
  7. coadoptions
  8. coadoration
  9. Coads
  10. coadsorb
  11. coadsorbed

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