Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to mutualism or mutualists.
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- adjective biology
mutually beneficial
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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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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 many types of symbiotic relationships, not all of them mutualistic.
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There are too many social implications to a human-animal mutualistic relationship.
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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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