ALL meanings of preadaptation
pre·ad·ap·ta·tion
P p - noun preadaptation a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment. 1
- noun preadaptation the possession by a species or other group of characteristics that may favour survival in a changed environment, such as the limblike fins of crossopterygian fishes, which are preadaptation to terrestrial life 0
- noun preadaptation the possession of certain characteristics by an organism which make it more adaptable to a future environmental change than similar organisms are 0