adapt
verb (used with object)
to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly.
adaptedness
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a word derived from
adapt.
Example Sentences
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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
Spiritual forces and beings spurn material impediments, and are united or separate, reciprocally visible or invisible, mutually conscious or unconscious, according to their own laws of kindred or alien adaptedness.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
This is a description, given of the industry and adaptedness of the people of Africa, to labor and toil of every kind.
From The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Martin Robison Delany
They naturally go together where there is adaptedness for them, mutually quickening and increasing each other.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
His voyage round the world on the Beagle aroused in him keen interest in the problem of species—their variety, their variation according to place and time, their adaptedness to environment.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
