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missing link

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Main Entry: missing link

Function: noun

Date: 1851

1 : an absent member needed to complete a series or resolve a problem
2 a : a hypothetical intermediate evolutionary form between humans and their presumed simian progenitors b : a hypothetical intermediate evolutionary form between one animal species or group and its presumed ancestors <a missing link between reptiles and birds>

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