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Successional

Suc-ces′sion-al

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Adj.
Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.
Successional teeth.”
Flower.
Suc-ces′sion-al-ly
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adv.

Definition 2024


successional

successional

English

Adjective

successional (not comparable)

  1. Of, related to or caused by succession
    • 1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader:
      Surviving plant communities can be compared to their ancestors, and the differences between them reveal the changes wrought by climate, by pollution, by natural successional processes.

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