successional

English

Etymology

From succession +‎ -al.

Adjective

successional (not comparable)

1. Of, related to or caused by succession
   • 1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Surviving plant communities can be compared to their ancestors, and the differences between them reveal the changes wrought by climate, by pollution, by natural successional processes.

Derived terms

• successionally

Translations

of, related to or caused by succession

• Spanish: sucesorio (es)

Noun

successional (plural successionals)

1. (biology) Such an organism