successional
English
Etymology
succession + -al
Adjective
successional (not comparable)
- 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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Derived terms
- successionally