EVOLUTION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
   Synonym(s)
   • development (what does development mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the development of his ideas took many years
   • the evolution of Greek civilization
   • the slow development of her skill as a writer
   Hypernyms(s) evolution is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • process (what does process mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • degeneration (what does degeneration mean?)
   • devolution (what does devolution mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • assibilation (what does assibilation mean?)
   • deepening (what does deepening mean?)
   • growth (what does growth mean?)
   • unfolding (what does unfolding mean?)
   • flowering (what does flowering mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • evolve (what does evolve mean?)
   • develop (what does develop mean?)
   • grow (what does grow mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms
   Synonym(s)
   • phylogenesis (what does phylogenesis mean?)
   • phylogeny (what does phylogeny mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) evolution is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • organic process (what does organic process mean?)
   • biological process (what does biological process mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • anamorphosis (what does anamorphosis mean?)
   • anamorphism (what does anamorphism mean?)
   • anthropogenesis (what does anthropogenesis mean?)
   • anthropogeny (what does anthropogeny mean?)
   • emergent evolution (what does emergent evolution mean?)
   • macroevolution (what does macroevolution mean?)
   • microevolution (what does microevolution mean?)
   • speciation (what does speciation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • develop (what does develop mean?)
   • acquire (what does acquire mean?)
   • evolve (what does evolve mean?)
   • evolve (what does evolve mean?)