ADAPTIVE RADIATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does adaptive radiation mean? • ADAPTIVE RADIATION (noun)
The noun ADAPTIVE RADIATION has 1 sense:
1. the development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches
Familiarity information: ADAPTIVE RADIATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ADAPTIVE RADIATION (noun)
Meaning:
The development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("adaptive radiation" is a kind of...):
radiation (the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats)
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