ADAPTIVE RADIATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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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