Definition of formative

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

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Creant :: Creant (a.) Creative; formative.
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..
Hyperplastic :: Hyperplastic (a.) Tending to excess of formative action.
Formative :: Formative (n.) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root..
Afformative :: Afformative (n.) An affix.
Haematoplastic :: Haematoplastic (a.) Blood formative; -- applied to a substance in early fetal life, which breaks up gradually into blood vessels..
Formative :: Formative (a.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter..
Bioplast :: Bioplast (n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast..
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..
Demiurgic :: Demiurgic (a.) Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.
Informative :: Informative (a.) Having power to inform, animate, or vivify..
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..
Formative :: Formative (a.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative..
Reformative :: Reformative (a.) Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
Formative :: Formative (a.) Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts..
Vasoformative :: Vasoformative (a.) Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells..
Enchyma :: Enchyma (n.) The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed..
Esemplastic :: Esemplastic (a.) Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity..
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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