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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to mutualism or mutualists.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology mutually beneficial
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“The interaction between the ants and their fungus crop, and the ants and the bacteria is known as a mutualistic relationship.”
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“(When a symbiotic relationship is good for the host, it is "mutualistic" and if it's bad for the host, then it deserves the label "parasitic".)”
“mutualistic," a huge cooperative, a mediate form between individualism and collectivism.”
“Golf courses and geese are a twisted mutualistic sort of deal.”
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“Commuter drafting: sensible, mutualistic effort-pooling or presumptious and potentially intimidating?”
“There are too many social implications to a human-animal mutualistic relationship.”
“There are many types of symbiotic relationships, not all of them mutualistic.”
“Microbe – plant interactions can be competitive for nutrients and also mutualistic through mycorrhizal associations.”
“The plant – microbe interaction may also be mutualistic through the mycorrhiza by which the fungal partner supplies nutrients to the plant in exchange for C supplied by the plant.”
“Once Americans can institutionalize a system that serves "We the people", and not "We the owners of capital", they can begin to achieve the constitutionally-inspired mutualistic and participatory society of many American progressive visionaries that include Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr, sought to inspire.”
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