mutative
- 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
But the chance of mutative changes in larger numbers is manifestly much reduced by this experiment, and they may be expected to form a very small proportion of the culture.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
This faculty must be one and the same for all the hundreds of mutative productions of the same form.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
