macroevolution
noun
macroevolution is a noun meaning “Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life, including the origins of novel organism designs, evolutionary trends, adaptive radiations…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of macroevolution is macroevolutions.
What does macroevolution mean?
noun
- 1
Large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life, including the origins of novel organism designs, evolutionary trends, adaptive radiations and extinctions.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of macroevolution
- macroevolutions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is macroevolution?
Macroevolution appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Macroevolution in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense large-scale patterns or processes in the history of life:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | macroevolución |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does macroevolution come from?
From macro- + evolution.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).