资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Adoptive \A*dopt"ive\, a. [L. adoptivus: cf. F. adoptif.]
   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.