The phrase 'distinctive life' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that can be easily distinguished from its environment, or to describe a life or lifestyle that is different from others. For example, "The family led a distinctive life on the isolated island."
Many distinctive life forms of reptiles in tropical Asia are arboreal.
Coal mining was scattered in the coal-producing districts; there were few large towns, and miners lived a distinctive life, having their own patterns of work and leisure.
But every new justice changes the court, bringing his or her own distinctive life experiences, personality and perspectives on the law.
(1) The parasitoid wasps are a diverse taxonomic group, with their distinctive life histories influencing mating-system evolution and patterns of sexual selection.
Since their distinctive life style enables these species to live and breed in closest vicinity, we hypothesized that these cichlids might be particularly prone to accidental hybridization, and that introgression might have affected the evolutionary history of this cichlid lineage.
Several of the Lamprologini developed a distinctive life style, in that they live and breed in empty shells of the gastropod species Neothauma tanganyicense, and sometimes Pila ovata, Paramelania spp. and Lavigeria spp. [ 3, 4].
Until very recently Jainism had not developed any distinctive life-cycle rituals for events such as birth and marriage, although in the 9th century the Digambara monk Jinasena attempted to legislate in this area.
Biography can satisfy the scientific aim of the historian to be objective because an "individual does not face a limitless play of forces in the historical world: he dwells in the sphere of the state, religion, or science in brief, in a distinctive life-system or in a constellation of them.
Its streets have echoed with a dozen languages, its neighborhoods adapting to the distinctive life-style and changing economic fortunes of each new group".
It's the vineyards' proximity to the Atlantic ocean and its air-conditioning properties that gives the wines their distinctive lift and life, and which make this electric chardonnay a more than credible alternative to white burgundies such as Chablis at a fraction of the price.
South America possesses a distinctive plant life.
