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Definition of Adaptative
1. Adjective. Having a capacity for adaptation. "The adaptive coloring of a chameleon"
Similar to: Accommodative, Reconciling, Adaptational, Adjustive
Derivative terms: Adapt, Adapt
Antonyms: Maladaptive
Definition of Adaptative
1. a. Adaptive.
Definition of Adaptative
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to adaptation; adaptive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adaptative
Literary usage of Adaptative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"adaptative CO-ORDINATION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CIRCULATORY ORGANS. In our
study of motion in general physiology we found that a successful adaptative ..."
2. A New Natural Theology: Based Upon the Doctrine of Evolution by J. Morris (1896)
"... and assuming, relatively to the protoplasmic evolution, the character of a
power controlling the form of the protoplasmic adaptative,features. ..."
3. Problems of Genetics by William Bateson (1913)
"We must ask not only do changed conditions produce an adaptative response on ...
No epitome of the older evidence for the inheritance of adaptative changes ..."
4. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1877)
"... on the direct adaptative causes which first brought about the differentiation,
in so far would it be possible for the differentiation, the segregation ..."
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