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pre adaptation

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pre⋅ad⋅ap⋅ta⋅tion

[pree-ad-uhp-tey-shuhn]
–noun Biology.
a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.

Origin:
1885–90; pre- + adaptation
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