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MACROEVOLUTION

Dictionary entry overview: What does macroevolution mean?

• MACROEVOLUTION (noun)
The noun MACROEVOLUTION has 1 sense:

1. evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups

Familiarity information: MACROEVOLUTION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MACROEVOLUTION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("macroevolution" is a kind of...):

evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms)

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