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Hyperplastic :: Hyperplastic (a.) Tending to excess of formative action.

Demiurgic :: Demiurgic (a.) Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

Formative :: Formative (a.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter..

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain..

Reformatory :: Reformatory (a.) Tending to produce reformation; reformative.

Creant :: Creant (a.) Creative; formative.

#NAME? :: -blast () A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc..

-derm :: -derm (n.) A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc..

Formative :: Formative (n.) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root..

Form :: Form (n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law..

Transformative :: Transformative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to transform..

Esemplastic :: Esemplastic (a.) Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity..

Preformative :: Preformative (n.) A formative letter at the beginning of a word.

Reformative :: Reformative (a.) Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.

Informative :: Informative (a.) Having power to inform, animate, or vivify..

-ation :: -ation () A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization..

Bioplast :: Bioplast (n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast..

Enchyma :: Enchyma (n.) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed..

Formative :: Formative (n.) That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word..

Vasoformative :: Vasoformative (a.) Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells..

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