Evolutionary

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to evolution or development; developmental: as, the evolutionary origin of species.
  • Of or pertaining to evolutions or manœuvers, as of an army, a fleet, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Relating to evolution.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or relating to evolution.
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  • adjective. of or relating to or produced by evolution
  • Word Usage
    "In recent years, great strides have been made in molecular developmental genetics, which has renewed hopes of integrating the study of embryological development with evolutionary theory; hence the emerging new discipline of ˜evolutionary developmental biology™, or evo-devo."
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