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relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association; the doctrine that the interdependence of social elements is the primary determinant of individual and social relations, esp. the theory that common ownership of property, or collective effort and control governed by sentiments of brotherhood and mutual ai; the force or principle of mutual aid

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  • (When a symbiotic relationship is good for the host, it is "mutualistic" and if it's bad for the host, then it deserves the label "parasitic".)
  • "mutualistic," a huge cooperative, a mediate form between individualism and collectivism.
  • Golf courses and geese are a twisted mutualistic sort of deal.
  • There are many types of symbiotic relationships, not all of them mutualistic.
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