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- (biology, evolutionary theory) The use of a biological structure or function for a purpose other than that for which it initially evolved.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (biology, evolutionary theory) The use of a biological structure or function for a purpose other than that for which it initially evolved.
- (linguistics, by extension) The promotion of meaningless or redundant material so that it does new grammatical (morphosyntactic or phonological) or semantic work.
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