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developmentary

developmentary adjective: pertaining to development; developmental.

Adjective

developmentary (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to development; developmental.
    • We all learned about homeobox genes (and others) in our developmentary biology and molecular genetics classes.2007 July 3, “Letters”, in New York Times

Origin of developmentary

From development + -ary.

Questions about developmentary

What does developmentary mean?
Developmentary means pertaining to development; developmental.
What part of speech is developmentary?
Developmentary is an adjective.

Words near developmentary in the dictionary

  1. developmentalism
  2. developmentalist
  3. developmentalists
  4. developmentally
  5. developmentals
  6. developmentary
  7. developmentation
  8. developments
  9. developpe
  10. developped
  11. developper

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