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GENERATIONAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does generational mean?
• GENERATIONAL (adjective)
The adjective GENERATIONAL has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to a generation
Familiarity information: GENERATIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to a generation
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
generation (all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age)
Derivation:
generation (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)
generation (all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age)
generation (a stage of technological development or innovation)
Context examples
He believes the strategy represents a major step forward in the quest to develop disease resistance in long-generational plants such as trees.
(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)
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