diversity

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One reason for their diversity is their startling ability to borrow genes from other life forms.

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  1. noun The fact or quality of being diverse; difference.
  2. noun A point or respect in which things differ.
  3. noun Variety or multiformity: "Charles Darwin saw in the diversity of species the principles of evolution that operated to generate the species: variation, competition and selection” (Scientific American).

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  • The Lord Protector had run what he called a diversity program to make sure none of the greater lords had a following exclusively drawn from their pre-Change backers, so only a couple of the guards were from the Lords, or their younger brothers, a few more were Society types, or their younger brothers, and half were just ordinary survivors who'd worked their way up. —  Map.html
  • In this view Margaret did not at all concur and the diversity was the incitement to much perfectly good-natured, but nevertheless sharpish sparring between us Whenever she said or did anything implying the usual demand of Woman on the courtesy and protection of Manhood, I was apt before complying, to look her in the face and exclaim with marked emphasis,—quoting from her 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century,'—'LET THEM BE SEA-CAPTAINS IF THEY WILL!' —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II
  • "It reminds us ... that our country's unity was built in diversity and that this diversity is also our strength," said Chrétien. —  Thestar.com - Home Page
  • This diversity is a treasure trove of traits that can be used by plant breeders and farmers to breed new crop varieties that are heat, insect and disease-resistant, drought-tolerant and climate-ready. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • The collection or rather the diversity is a feature that gives this website its unique identity. —  Best Syndication -
 

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  1. from Middle English diversite, from Old French diversite, French diversité = Provencal diversitat = Spanish diversidad = Portuguese diversidade = Italian diversità, from Latin diversita(t-)s, difference, contrariety, from diversus, different, diverse: see diverse, divers, adjective
 

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