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单词 facultative
释义 facultative
 —facultatively,  adv.  
 /fak"euhl tay'tiv/,  adj.  
  1. conferring a faculty, privilege, permission, or the power of doing or not doing something: a facultative enactment.
  2. left to one's option or choice; optional: The last questions in the examination were facultative.
  3. that may or may not take place; that may or may not assume a specified character.
  4.  Biol.   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 (opposed to obligate).
  5. of or pertaining to the faculties.
 [1810-20; < NL facultativus. See FACULTY, -IVE]
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