adopted, adoptive
(adjective) acquired as your own by free choice; “my adopted state”; “an adoptive country”
adoptive
(adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption; “adoptive parents”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
adoptive (not comparable)
Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.
Source: Wiktionary
A*dopt"ive, a. Etym: [L. adoptivus: cf. F. adoptif.]
Definition: Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
– A*dopt"ive*ly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
