mutualist noun & adjective. ['mju:tʃʊǝlɪst, -tjʊǝ-] M19.
[from MUTUAL + -IST.]
A. noun.
1. An advocate of mutualism. M19.

2. Biology. An organism which lives in a condition of mutualism with another. L19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to mutualists or mutualism. E20.

■ mutua'listic adjective exhibiting or characteristic of mutualism L19.

■ mutua'listically adverb M20.

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