Definitions
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- adj. mutually beneficial
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to mutualism or mutualists.
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Examples
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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".)
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"mutualistic," a huge cooperative, a mediate form between individualism and collectivism.
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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?
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There are too many social implications to a human-animal mutualistic relationship.
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There are many types of symbiotic relationships, not all of them mutualistic.
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Microbe – plant interactions can be competitive for nutrients and also mutualistic through mycorrhizal associations.
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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.
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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.
U.S. Bail out further demonstrates capitalism as being about capital, and not people
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