"adapt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Humans function underwater by virtue of technology, as our physiology is poorly adapted to the environment.
- The indigenous populations were poorly adapted for work on plantations, and many people died from diseases introduced by the Europeans.
- A man easily killed by bacteria was poorly adapted; he didn't live long enough to reproduce.
- A bacteria that killed its host was also poorly adapted.
- A 1948 study of his catalogued ways in which sick patients were poorly adapted to their social environments.
- Any offspring produced might have been poorly adapted to local conditions.
- Some of the recipes are poorly adapted to a home kitchen, giving olive oil and sugar by the ounce, or yielding 10 to 24 portions.
- It seemed poorly adapted for human use.
- They were poorly adapted to their society.
- Asian varieties are poorly adapted to African conditions as their cultivation requires abundant water.
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