Crossword-Solution: ADAPTIVE 8 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Adaptive a. Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized
by adaptation; capable of adapting.

We have 23 clues for the answer “ADAPTIVE”

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Showing adjustment to environment. 1 answer
Like chameleons' covering 1 answer
Able to change or conform. 1 answer
Able to conform 1 answer
Like a chameleon's coloring 1 answer
Like a chameleon's color 1 answer
Capable of adjustment. 1 answer
Helpful for survival 1 answer
Capable of changing 1 answer
Not set in one's ways. 1 answer
Chameleon's coloring, e.g. 1 answer
Not inflexible 2 answers
Capable of change 3 answers
Open to change 3 answers
CHAMELEONLIKE 4 answers
CAPABLE OF REPLACING OR CHANGING PLACES WITH SOMETHING ELSE 10 answers
Changing place 11 answers
chameleon American 11 answers
Chameleon 12 answers
Optics 18 answers
Malleable 29 answers
Plastic. 43 answers
Radiate 75 answers
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The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ADAPTIVE (5)

For example, one might see the following: I resently had occasion to field-test the Snafu Systems 2300E adaptive gonkulator.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Institutions are not only themselves the result of a selective and adaptive process which shapes the prevailing or dominant types of spiritual attitude and aptitudes; they are at the same time special methods of life and of human relations, and are therefore in their turn efficient factors of selection.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1997
For the present purpose, however, the question as to the nature of the adaptive process--whether it is chiefly a selection between stable types of temperament and character, or chiefly an adaptation of men's habits of thought to changing circumstances--is of less importance than the fact that, by one method or another, institutions change and develop.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1997
For the immediate purpose it need not be a question of serious importance whether this adaptive process is a process of selection and survival of persistent ethnic types or a process of individual adaptation and an inheritance of acquired traits.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1997

Quotes with ADAPTIVE (3)

He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.
Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a …
Michael Denton Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
Here’s another example that some overworked mothers might find inspiring. We saw in Chapter 2 that being the one who producesthe sperm doesn’t dictate, by universal principle, that parenting is out of the portfolio. However, in the case of the rat (as with mostmammals), the balance of trade-offs make it more adaptive for males to leave parenting to the mothers. This might tempt us to take it forgranted that males, by virtue of their sex, therefore lack the capacity to care fo…
Cordelia Fine Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
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