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preadaptation
noun
An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function
Word Frequency 1800~2019
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curled
powdery
grievance
ethics
clock
fabric
display
simplify
impolite
zoologist
humming
dipped
scarce
platonic
diaper
tropical
handgrip
spirits
dense
pathoadaptation
dedifferentiation
aposymbiont
paratomy
metaplasis
paradiapause
metaplasia
parasymbiont
basibiont
mesoparasitism
parabiont
adelphoparasitism
pseudoparasitism
epibionty
transdifferentiation