facultative
/fak-uhl-tey-tiv/US // ˈfæk əlˌteɪ tɪv //UK // (ˈfækəltətɪv) //
脸谱化的,脸谱化,脸盆式,脸盆式的
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : conferring a faculty, privilege, permission, or the power of doing or not doing something: a facultative enactment.
- : left to one's option or choice; optional: The last questions in the examination were facultative.
- : that may or may not take place; that may or may not assume a specified character.
- : Biology. having the capacity to live under more than one specific set of environmental conditions, as a plant that can lead either a parasitic or a nonparasitic life or a bacterium that can live with or without air.
- : of or relating to the faculties.
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Examples
Similarly the saphrophytes are classed as obligatory saphrophytes and facultative parasites.
If a parasite cannot exist outside animal tissues, it is an obligatory parasite; if it can, it is a facultative saphrophyte.
I have seen this particularly in those cases where facultative divergence also was greater than usual.
Moreover, the extent of the "facultative" divergence attainable by prisms shows a considerable latitude.
(b) Both saprophytic and facultative parasitic bacteria agree in requiring non-concentrated food.
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