| emergent | Any of various plants (as a cattail) rooted in shallow water and having most of the vegetative growth above the water. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| emergent evolution | Appearance of a property in a complex system e.g., organism that could have been predicted only with difficulty, or perhaps not at all, from a knowledge and understanding of the individual genotype changes taken separately. (05 Mar 2000) |