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adaptedness

  • a word derived from adapt.

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Laland and colleagues are correct that phenotypic plasticity, for instance, may contribute to the adaptedness of an individual.

From Nature • Oct. 7, 2014

We seize here the relation of the principle of the adaptedness of parts to the problem of the variety of form.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

His task requires peculiar adaptedness, supplemented by special training.

From Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

This adaptedness of the capillaries is, however, more usually an inherited state, i.e., brought about in the first period of development.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

They are regarded as trials and tests as to his adaptedness to the purpose for which he is created.

From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Ballou, Maturin Murray