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Adaptive   /ədˈæptɪv/   Listen
Adaptive

adjective
1.
Having a capacity for adaptation.  Synonym: adaptative.



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"Adaptive" Quotes from Famous Books



... its life. Has not his Paley told him that that seemingly useless organ, the spleen, is beautifully adjusted as so much packing between the other organs? And yet, at the outset of his studies, he finds that no adaptive reason whatsoever can be given for one-half of the peculiarities of vegetable structure; he also discovers rudimentary teeth, which are never used, in the gums of the young calf and in those of the foetal whale; insects which never bite have rudimental jaws, and others which never fly have ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley



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