ill-adapted
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Human eyes, honed by evolution to survive in the wild, are ill-adapted to city living, contributing to increased cases of myopia, among other factors.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
The relentless spread of invasive grasses across the desert is making it more flammable, increasing the number and size of wildfires in ecosystems that rarely burned and are ill-adapted to survive flames.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2020
Like many island endemics, Hawaii’s bird species grew up without mammalian predators, so they’re ill-adapted to the teeth and claws that arrived with human society.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2020
Like many island endemics, Hawaii's bird species grew up without mammalian predators, so they're ill-adapted to the teeth and claws that arrived with human society.
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2020
Besides being unsightly, this form of flame was ill-adapted to develop, to anything like its full extent, the illuminating power of the gas.
From Gas Burners Old and New by Merriman, Owen
