mutualistic
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mutualistic (comparative more mutualistic, superlative most mutualistic)
- (biology) mutually beneficial
- 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 234:
- 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.