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MACROEVOLUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("macroevolution" is a kind of...):
evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms)