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

Afformative :: Afformative (n.) An affix.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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