Definition of Successional

1. a. Of or pertaining to a succession; existing in a regular order; consecutive.

Definition of Successional

1. Adjective. Of, related to or caused by succession ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Successional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Successional

succeedingly
succeeds
succentor
succentors
succes
success
success has many fathers, failure is an orphan
success story
successary
successe
successes
successful
successfully
successfulness
succession
successional (current term)
successionally
successionism
successionist
successionists
successions
successism
successive
successively
successiveness
successless
successlessness
successor
successoral
successors

Literary usage of Successional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Northwest Forest Plan: A Report to the President and Congress by E. Thomas Tuchmann (1998)
"Amounts of Late-successional and Old-Growth Forests Considerable debate appears in the popular press over the historical amounts of late-successional and ..."

2. Institutes and History of Roman Private Law with Catena of Texts by Carl Salkowski, Edward Elihu Whitfield (1886)
"Besides the civil successional system of ' hereditas,' which rests essentially on the Twelve Tables, there arose already during the Republic the Praetorian ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The development of the successional permanent teeth— the ten anterior ones in either jaw—has already been indicated. During their development the permanent ..."

4. A Study of Christianity as Organized: Its Ideas and Forms by John Adam Kern (1910)
"THE successional SACERDOTAL EPISCOPATE A ROMAN IDEA. There is still another question of origins that here invites attention : Whence came the idea of the ..."

5. The Suburban Horticulturist, Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"Crops in horticulture aro made to follow each other according to two distinct plans or systems, which may be termed successional cropping and simultaneous ..."

6. The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1904)
"successional RELATION. As the biologic types are variations become permanent, it is important to examine how the former stand related to each other. ..."

7. The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1896)
"successional RELATION. As the biologic types are variations become permanent, it is important to examine how the former stand related to each other. ..."

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