coadapted

[ koh-uh-dap-tid ]

adjective

1. having undergone coadaptation; mutually accommodating.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coadapted¹

co- + adapt + -ed ²

Example Sentences

These “coadapted gene complexes” are broken up with excessive outbreeding.

From Salon

We conclude that in this animal complex, the gut microbiome and host genome represent a coadapted “hologenome” that breaks down during hybridization, promoting hybrid lethality and assisting speciation.

From Science Magazine

We cannot attribute these coadapted modifications to chance, or to correlated variability; we must attribute them to reversion to a primordial condition of the species.

From Project Gutenberg

Coadapted: formed so as to work together to one end; as the mandible and maxilla in Chrysopids, etc.

From Project Gutenberg

We cannot attribute these coadapted modifications to chance, or to correlated variability; we must attribute them to reversion to a primordial condition of the species.

From Project Gutenberg