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
Such is the case with the mutative origin of Xanthium commune Wootoni from New Mexico and of Oenothera biennis cruciata from Holland.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
The periods in which such groups occur would constitute the mutative periods.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
