ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Successional

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Successional is an adjective meaning Of, related to or caused by succession.

Meaning

Of, related to or caused by succession.

More Meanings

  1. (biology) Such an organism

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include successive, regenerative, seral, seres, successionary, successory.

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