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1. (adj.) facultative
conferring a faculty, privilege, permission, or the power of doing or not doing something:
a facultative enactment.
2. facultative
being left to one's option or choice; optional.
3. facultative
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
4. facultative
of or pertaining to the mental faculties.
5. facultative
having the potential of taking place or assuming a specified character.
Etymology: (1810–20; < F)
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1. (adj) facultative
of or relating to the mental faculties
2. (adj) facultative
able to exist under more than one set of conditions
"a facultative parasite can exist as a parasite or a saprophyte"
3. (adj) facultative
granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something
"a facultative enactment"
4. (adj) facultative
not compulsory
"facultative courses in the sciences"
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