EVOLUTILITY

Ev′o‐lu‐til″i‐ty (ĕv′ō̍‐lū̍‐tĭl″ĭ‐ty̆), n. [[See Evolution.]] (Biol.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure. Syd. Soc. Lex.