successional

English

Etymology

From succession +‎ -al.

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[1]:
      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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Noun

successional (plural successionals)

  1. (biology) Such an organism
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