EVOLUTIONARY TREND

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 I. (noun) 

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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