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successional

successional adjective: of, related to or caused by succession.

Adjective

successional (not comparable)

  1. Of, related to or caused by succession
    • Surviving plant communities can be compared to their ancestors, and the differences between them reveal the changes wrought by climate, by pollution, by natural successional processes.1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

successional (plural successionals)

  1. Such an organism

Forms of successional

pluralsuccessionals

Origin of successional

From succession + -al.

Words formed from successional

Questions about successional

What does successional mean?
Successional means of, related to or caused by succession.
What part of speech is successional?
Successional can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near successional in the dictionary

  1. successfully
  2. successfulness
  3. succession
  4. succession duty
  5. succession of tenses
  6. successional
  7. successionally
  8. successionals
  9. successionary
  10. successionism
  11. successionist

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