Synonyms for adaptive
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uh-dap-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈdæp tɪv |
Définition of adaptive
- adj adjusting
- It has not been the business of monarchies to be adaptive from within.
- Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
- The facility of speech, the adaptive moulding to another's mood was not in him!
- Extract from : « A Man of Two Countries » by Alice Harriman
- In other words every character in plant or animal must be adaptive.
- Extract from : « Mimicry in Butterflies » by Reginald Crundall Punnett
- There is no mind quite so nimble, adaptive, or capable of simulation as that of the Pole.
- Extract from : « The Iron Ration » by George Abel Schreiner
- We must come to the conclusion that the form is adaptive in all cases.
- Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
- Because they are so adaptive, both as regards their food and their nesting-habits.
- Extract from : « Ways of Nature » by John Burroughs
- Here, again, we have a case of modified and adaptive instinct.
- Extract from : « Ways of Nature » by John Burroughs
- It is for this reason that imitation has been called an adaptive instinct.
- Extract from : « The Science of Human Nature » by William Henry Pyle
- This result is, in the language of adaptationists, brought about by an adaptive response of the plant to the light.
- Extract from : « The Organism as a Whole » by Jacques Loeb
- Water is thus facile and adaptive, that it makes the wild more wild, while it enhances more culture and art.
- Extract from : « Wake-Robin » by John Burroughs
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