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preadaptations

preadaptations is the plural of preadaptation.

Meaning of preadaptation

Noun

preadaptation (countable and uncountable, plural preadaptations)

  1. An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function

Questions about preadaptations

What is preadaptations the plural of?
Preadaptations is the plural of preadaptation.

Words near preadaptations in the dictionary

  1. preadamitic
  2. preadamitical
  3. Preadamitism
  4. preadapt
  5. preadaptation
  6. preadaptations
  7. preadaptative
  8. preadapted
  9. preadapting
  10. preadaptive
  11. preadapts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preadaptations (page history and authors); preadaptation (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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