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SPECIATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they speciate ... he / she / it speciates
Past simple: speciated
Past participle: speciated
-ing form: speciating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
Synonyms:
differentiate; specialise; specialize; speciate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "speciate" is one way to...):
evolve (undergo development or evolution)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
speciation (the evolution of a biological species)
