Vocabulary Word
Word: provisional
Definition: tentative; temporary
Definition: tentative; temporary
Sentences Containing 'provisional'
This seemed to be true, so long as a genus was imperfectly known, and its species were founded upon a few specimens, that is to say, were provisional.
Finally, De Candolle admits that out of the 300 species, which will be enumerated in his Prodromus as belonging to the oak family, at least two-thirds are provisional species, that is, are not known strictly to fulfil the definition above given of a true species.
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