All 11 Uses of
adapt
in
Dune
- This latitude's life-zone has mostly what we call minor water stealers—adapted to raiding each other for moisture, gobbling up the trace-dew.
Book 1 (definition 1) *adapted = well-suited
- Many creatures have adapted to this place.†
Book 1 (definition 2)
- We must use man as a constructive ecological force—inserting adapted terraform life: a plant here, an animal there, a man in that place—to transform the water cycle, to build a new kind of landscape.†
Book 2 (definition 2)
- She knew the cant of the Missionaria Protectiva, knew how to adapt the techniques of legend and fear and hope to her emergency needs, but she sensed wild changes here …. as though someone had been in among these Fremen and capitalized on the Missionaria Protectiva's imprint.†
Book 2 (definition 2)
- Completely adapted to the diet and the life here.†
Book 3 (definition 2)
- Adaptive zones were laid out in the deep south far from Harkonnen watchers.†
Book A1 - (definition 2)
- Now, they came in with deeper plantings — ephemerals (chenopods, pigweeds, and amaranth to begin), then scotch broom, low lupine, vine eucalyptus (the type adapted for Caladan's northern reaches), dwarf tamarisk, shore pine — then the true desert growths: candelilla, saguaro, and bis-naga, the barrel cactus.†
Book A1 - (definition 2)
- Now came the crucial test: date palms, cotton, melons, coffee, medicinals — more than 200 selected food plant types to test and adapt.
Book A1 - (definition 2) *adapt = change to fit
- CIELAGO: any modified Chiroptera of Arrakis adapted to carry distrans messages.†
Book Term (definition 2)
- KULON: wild ass of Terra's Asiatic steppes adapted for Arrakis.
Book Term (definition 2)adapted = made suitable
- MUAD'DIB: the adapted kangaroo mouse of Arrakis, a creature associated in the Fremen earth-spirit mythology with a design visible on the planet's second moon.†
Book Term (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (adapted as in: the species is well adapted for) to be especially well suited or appropriate for something
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(2) (adapt as in: adapted to the new rules) changed to fit a different situation; or made suitable