intergradation
Use Intergradation in a sentence
tər noun
1.
the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
2.
an evolutionary process by which different species of organisms tend to merge through a series of intermediate stages or grades.
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| intergrade | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) (esp of biological species, etc) to merge one into another |
| —n | |
| 2. | an intermediate stage or form |
| intergra'dation | |
| —n | |
| intergra'dational | |
| —adj | |
| inter'gradient | |
| —adj | |
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Intergradation
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Example sentences
There is a broad zone of intergradation between them.
Most other populations represent some intergradation with the western subspecies.
These isolated refugia result in multiple zones of secondary intergradation.
Geographic patterns of intergradation between the subspecies have not been defined.
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