Word Meanings - STRIDULATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin.
Related words: (words related to STRIDULATORY)
- 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.