having undergone coadaptation; mutually accommodating
Word origin
[co- + adapt + -ed2]-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: connected, frosted, limited, sheltered, unsettled
Examples of 'coadapted' in a sentence
coadapted
The arrangements suppress recombination in heterokaryotypic individuals, which allows for the selective maintenance of coadapted gene complexes.
Richard P Meisel, Stephen W Schaeffer 2007, 'Meiotic transmission of Drosophila pseudoobscura chromosomal arrangements.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1885828?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Rabies virus strains and their hosts have to be coadapted in order to allow their prolonged coexistence.
Alexander Wandeler 1991, 'Carnivore rabies: ecological and evolutionary aspects / La rabbia nei Carnivori: aspettiecologici ed evolutivi', Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogyhttp://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/article/view/3949. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)