adaptability

[ADAPTABLE.] logical character; one founded not on affinity, but on analogy. [ANALOGY.] "These resemblances, though so intimately connected with the whole life of the being, are ranked as merely adaptive or analogical characters."-Darwin: Origin of Species , ch. xiii. ad-ăpt'-ive-lý, adv. [ADAPTIVE.] In an adaptive manner, so as to be adapted to something else. such later and le typical mammal i a do more effective work by virtue of their adaptively modified structures."-Owen Cla if. of Mammal i a,