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Definition of Protractive
1. a. Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
Definition of Protractive
1. Adjective. Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Protractive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protractive
Literary usage of Protractive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1918)
"Subsequent whorls are concave in the upper third, then convex, with sculpture of
rounded, slightly protractive axial ribs, which become lower and arched ..."
2. Report on the Turton Collection of South African Marine Mollusks: With by Paul Bartsch (1915)
"The remaining portions of the whorls on the spire are marked by low, rounded,
protractive, axial ribs, ... keel and protractive on the rest of the shell. ..."
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