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mutualistic

mutualistic adjective: mutually beneficial.

Adjective

mutualistic (comparative more mutualistic, superlative most mutualistic)

  1. Mutually beneficial.
    • Mutualistic relationships, such as those that give rise to lichens, or plants' relationships with mycorrhizal fungi, were curious exceptions to the rule—where they were acknowledged to exist at all.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 234

Forms of mutualistic

comparativemore mutualistic
superlativemost mutualistic

Origin of mutualistic

From mutual + -istic.

Words formed from mutualistic

Questions about mutualistic

What does mutualistic mean?
Mutualistic means mutually beneficial.
What part of speech is mutualistic?
Mutualistic is an adjective.

Words near mutualistic in the dictionary

  1. mutualises
  2. mutualising
  3. mutualism
  4. mutualisms
  5. mutualist
  6. mutualistic
  7. mutualistically
  8. mutualists
  9. mutualities
  10. mutuality
  11. mutualization

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