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coadoptions

coadoptions is the plural of coadoption.

Meaning of coadoption

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

Questions about coadoptions

What is coadoptions the plural of?
Coadoptions is the plural of coadoption.

Words near coadoptions in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coadoptions (page history and authors); coadoption (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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