adaptive
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adjective
serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
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Example sentences from the Web for adaptive
Ability to respond adaptively to more elements in the environment gives a larger dominion, that is all.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology|Robert E. ParkSurely at least the unclear conception of an adaptively transformative influence of food must be discarded.
On Germinal Selection as a Source of Definite Variation|August WeismannIts body is less adaptively modified and shows the essentially fish-like character of the batrachian structure.
Elementary Zoology, Second Edition|Vernon L. Kellogg