mutate
verb (used with object)
to change; alter.
mutative
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a word derived from
mutate.
Example Sentences
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Bancel said to the Financial Times that the omicron variant’s unruly swarm of mutations has worried scientists, many of whom did not expect such a highly mutative variant to emerge for another year or two.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Some of the appendages display the kind of mutative powers that make the term "leg" redundant.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jul. 1, 2011
He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
This assumption requires only a limited number of mutative periods, which might well occur within the time allowed by physicists and geologists for the existence of animal and vegetable life on the earth.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
And in crossing experiments also the red-veins gave proof of the absence of a mutative capacity for their production.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
