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Definition of Adaptational
1. Adjective. Of or relating to adaptation.
Definition of Adaptational
1. Adjective. Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the adjustment of one thing to another; adaptive ¹
2. Adjective. (biology) Applied to physiological or functional modifications of parts or organs, as distinguished from morphological or structural changes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adaptational
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adaptational
Literary usage of Adaptational
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man: Mental and by John Lubbock (1889)
"These I call adaptational modifications. They are changes produced, not by
difference of race or of civilisation, but by physical causes. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"There are several grounds which have led to the belief that organization and
adaptational characters coincide. Chiefly the brilliant results which ..."
3. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Hydrophytic Plants. if The different adaptational groups of plants may be ...
Thus, there are three principal adaptational groups, known respectively as ..."
4. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"Hydrophytic Plants. if The different adaptational groups of plants may be ...
Thus, there are three principal adaptational groups, known respectively as ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1893)
"A. Congenital adaptational Feature». 1. No tubercles on the prothoracic segment.
... B. Evolution of adaptational Feature». 1 The body in Stage II assumes ..."
6. Evolution, racial and habitudinal by John Thomas Gulick (1905)
"The former I call rational selection and the latter adaptational selection. ...
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