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Definition of Generative

1. Adjective. Having the ability to produce or originate. "Generative forces"

2. Adjective. Producing new life or offspring. "The reproductive or generative organs"

Definition of Generative

1. a. Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

Definition of Generative

1. Adjective. Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Generative

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Generative

1. Pertaining to the process of generating. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Generative

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Literary usage of Generative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The generative ducts of the Oligochaeta are probably derived from excretory organs. In the Terricola ordinary excretory organs are present in the generative ..."

2. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"There are great peculiarities in the structural relations of the parts which enclose the generative products, but they are connected by a large number of ..."

3. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"It is altogether probable that the size and form of free generative cells varies with age and external conditions, so that they may be relatively large or ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"Here they include under the title of one generation all that intervenes between one generative act and the next. 'If,' says Dr Carpenter, 'the phenomena be ..."

5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"Here they include under the title of one generation all that intervenes between one generative act and the next. 'If,' says Dr Carpenter, 'the phenomena be ..."

6. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"THE functions of the above-described generative Organs are ' semination,'' ... Exclusion of the male generative product is called ' emission,' that of the ..."

7. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"THE functions of the above-described generative Organs are ' semination,' ... Exclusion of the male generative product is called ' emission,' that of the ..."

8. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1877)
"IN the following pages are recorded some observations on the generative ... The animals during the development of the generative products pass through three ..."

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