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mutualistic, a.|mjuːtjuːəˈlɪstɪk|
[f. mutualist + -ic.]
Exhibiting or characteristic of mutualism (esp. sense 2).
1885Anarchist 15 Sept. 2/2 He shews how two principles pervade human society—one mutualistic, which leads to equality, the other, antagonistic, which destroys it. 1911J. G. McIntosh Manuf. Varnishes III. 291 Giard does not see that the ants are enemies of the cochineal... Their relations are mutualistic and in no way predatory. 1936New Phytologist XXXV. 129 The presence of the fungus in a mycorrhizal association is to be regarded as an example of controlled parasitic attack and has no mutualistic significance. 1967V. Ahmadjian Lichen Symbiosis iv. 78 To say that all lichens are mutualistic is as wrong as saying that all are parasitic. 1970[see mutualism 2]. 1974Nature 18 Oct. 574/2 Mortimer Starr (University of California, Davis) produced a new classificatory scheme which has the virtue of both clarifying and thinking about the phenomenon and indicating where further experimental work is required—to decide, for example, whether a symbiotic association is mutualistic or obligately parasitic in this respect.
Hence mutuaˈlistically adv.
1949W. C. Allee et al. Princ. Anim. Ecol. xvii. 251 There does not appear to be any development of a strict taxonomic relation like that in so many examples of mutualistically paired species in which pollination is involved. 1967V. Ahmadjian Lichen Symbiosis iv. 78 In some Collema lichens the fungal hyphae periodically destroy certain parts of the algal colony while living mutualistically with the rest. |