mutualistic
adjEtymology From mutual + -istic.
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Biology, Natural sciences 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:
- Derived terms
- mutualistically, nonmutualistic
- Related terms
- mutualism