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EVOLUTIONARY TREND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evolutionary trend mean?
• EVOLUTIONARY TREND (noun)
The noun EVOLUTIONARY TREND has 1 sense:
1. a general direction of evolutionary change
Familiarity information: EVOLUTIONARY TREND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A general direction of evolutionary change
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("evolutionary trend" is a kind of...):
drift; movement; trend (a general tendency to change (as of opinion))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evolutionary trend"):
neoteny (an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species)
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