Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a facultative manner.
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- adverb In a
facultative manner
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Examples
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Aren't they ALL folksy, blue-eyed, facultatively bipedal teratomas over there?
It begins and ends in rust. Which begs the question... greygirlbeast 2010
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Increased productivity at lower trophic levels is likely to result in increased growth in early years for facultatively anadromous species that promotes a shift to wholly freshwater life histories
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Most anadromous species in the Arctic are facultatively anadromous [2] in that many individuals in a population do not necessarily migrate to sea even though it is accessible.
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Thus, facultatively anadromous species will possibly exhibit progressively less anadromous behavior if the benefits of remaining in freshwater systems outweigh the benefits of migrating to coastal areas for summer feeding over time.
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Apparently facultatively bipedal, with a toothless bird-like skull sporting large orbits, dinosaur-like cervical vertebrae possessing true pneumatic foramina, and reduced gracile forelimbs and a theropod-like pelvis, Effigia is strikingly like ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaurs) in several details, mostly those concerning the skull and cervical vertebrae.
Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Hence our Grand Lodge facultatively retains the Symbol of the Grand Architect of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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