microevolution
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.34 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Small-scale changes in the history of life, such as changes in allele frequencies in a population (over a few generations); also known as change at or below the species level.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "“It basically hasn’t become this massive chewing and grinding machine that it becomes later,” Mr. Martin said. The change would have been the result of microevolution, or an evolutionary change occurring within a species."