facultative
IPA: fˈækʌɫteɪtɪv
adjective
- Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.
- Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective.
- That grants permission or power to do something.
- (biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way.
- (geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive.
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Examples of "facultative" in Sentences
- Facultative and obligate bipedalism.
- The first pond is a facultative lagoon.
- It is a facultative intracellular bacterium.
- Yeast is an example of a facultative aerobe.
- In amphibians it can be obligate or facultative.
- Semispecific is synonymous to facultative parasite.
- This is an example of facultative embryonic diapause.
- Members of Acholeplasmatales are facultative anaerobic.
- Facultative diapause can also be referred to as facultative arrest.
- It is the primary facultative organism of the human gastrointestinal tract.