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SPECIATION

Dictionary entry overview: What does speciation mean?

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

1. the evolution of a biological species

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

Dictionary entry details

• SPECIATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The evolution of a biological species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("speciation" 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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