Definition of formative

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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..

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Preformative :: Preformative (n.) A formative letter at the beginning of a word.
Reformative :: Reformative (a.) Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
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.
Demiurgic :: Demiurgic (a.) Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.
Vasoformative :: Vasoformative (a.) Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells..
Formative :: Formative (a.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter..
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 (a.) Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts..
#NAME? :: -blast () A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc..
Enchyma :: Enchyma (n.) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed..
Formative :: Formative (n.) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root..
Creant :: Creant (a.) Creative; formative.
Formative :: Formative (a.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative..
Haematoplastic :: Haematoplastic (a.) Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels..
Transformative :: Transformative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to transform..
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..
Informative :: Informative (a.) Having power to inform, animate, or vivify..
Bioplast :: Bioplast (n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast..
Plastide :: Plastide (n.) A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under Morphon.
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