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survival of the fittest

 
pronunciation:
sr vaI vl v th fI tihst
part of speech: noun
definition: in biology, the evolutionary principle that only the forms of plants or animals best suited to or most easily able to adapt to existing conditions will survive, while other less suited forms will become extinct. (See natural selection.)