Usually means: Optional, not required but possible.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word facultative:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. facultative: Merriam-Webster
  2. facultative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. facultative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. facultative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. facultative: Vocabulary.com
  6. facultative: Wordnik
  7. facultative: Wiktionary
  8. facultative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. facultative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. facultative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. facultative: Dictionary.com
  12. Facultative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. facultative: Rhymezone
  14. facultative: FreeDictionary.org
  15. facultative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. facultative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. facultative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. facultative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. facultative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Facultative: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Facultative: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  7. facultative: Medical dictionary
  8. Facultative: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. facultative: A Word A Day

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See facultatively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (facultative)

adjective:  Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.
adjective:  Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective.
adjective:  That grants permission or power to do something.
adjective:  (biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way.
adjective:  (geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive.

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