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noun
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The principles of natural selection set out by w:Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859) and other writings.
- The evolution and common ancestry of all living and extinct species resulting from gradual evolutionary mechanisms such as natural selection.
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| deflected |
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(past of, deflect)
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| degenerate |
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noun
- One is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
- You are a , boy. You're a disgrace to your ancestors.
adjective
- (of qualities) having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desire, desirable to an undesirable and typically abnormal
- (of a human or system) having lost good or desirable qualities
- (of an encoding or function) having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range
''The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codon, codons.
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(math) a degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
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| dehiscence |
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noun
- Opening, gaping, in a general sense.
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(botany) The bursting of seed-pods, capsules etc.
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(medicine) A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
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| dendrochronology |
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(biology),(archaeology) The science that uses the spacing between the annual growth-rings of trees to date their exact year of formation.
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| dendrology |
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- the study of trees and other woody plants
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| diagnose |
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verb (diagnos, ing)
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(context, transitive, medicine) To determine the root cause of (a disease).
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| diagnosis |
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noun (diagnoses)
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(medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
- The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).
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