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Word Meanings - STRIDULATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.

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  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • ADAPTNESS
    Adaptedness.
  • STRIDULOUS
    Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne. The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow. Stridulous laryngitis , a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by
  • DARWINIAN
    Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
  • ADAPTIVE
    Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
  • ADAPT
    Fitted; suited. Swift.
  • ADAPTATION
    1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
  • DARWINIANISM
    Darwinism.
  • ADAPTORIAL
    Adaptive.
  • ADAPTEDNESS
    The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
  • ADAPTER
    A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.
  • STRIDULATOR
    That which stridulates. Darwin.
  • ADAPTABILITY; ADAPTABLENESS
    The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.
  • STRIDULATION
    The act of stridulating. Specifically: The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. The noise
  • ADAPTION
    Adaptation. Cheyne.
  • ADAPTLY
    In a suitable manner. Prior.
  • ADAPTIVENESS
    The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
  • STRIDULATORY
    Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.
  • STRIDULATE
    To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically ,
  • DARWINISM
    The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
  • COADAPTED
    Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.
  • NEO-DARWINISM
    The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
  • COADAPTATION
    Mutual adaption. R. Owen.
  • INADAPTATION
    Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.

 

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