evolve

evolve
[[t]ɪvɒ̱lv[/t]]
evolves, evolving, evolved
1) VERB When animals or plants evolve, they gradually change and develop into different forms.

The bright plumage of many male birds was thought to have evolved to attract females...

[V from n] Maize evolved from a wild grass in Mexico.

[V into n] ...when amphibians evolved into reptiles.

2) V-ERG If something evolves or you evolve it, it gradually develops over a period of time into something different and usually more advanced.

[V into n] ...a tiny airline which eventually evolved into Pakistan International Airlines...

[V from n] Popular music evolved from folk songs...

As medical knowledge evolves, beliefs change...

[V n] This was when he evolved the working method from which he has never departed.


English dictionary. 2008.

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