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

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

Plastide :: Plastide (n.) A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under Morphon.

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

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

Oviferous :: Oviferous (a.) Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched..

Afformative :: Afformative (n.) An affix.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Formative :: Formative (a.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative..

Cambium :: Cambium (n.) A series of formative cells lying outside of the wood proper and inside of the inner bark. The growth of new wood takes place in the cambium, which is very soft..

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

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

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

Formative :: Formative (a.) Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts..

Haematoplastic :: Haematoplastic (a.) Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels..

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