Usually means: Adaptation useful for future conditions.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. preadaptation: Merriam-Webster
  2. preadaptation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preadaptation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preadaptation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preadaptation: Wordnik
  6. preadaptation: Wiktionary
  7. preadaptation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. preadaptation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. preadaptation: Dictionary.com
  10. Preadaptation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. preadaptation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. preadaptation: Encyclopedia

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  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (preadaptation)

noun:  (biology) An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function

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