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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Hyperplastic :: Hyperplastic (a.) Tending to excess of formative action.

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

Afformative :: Afformative (n.) An affix.

#NAME? :: -blast () A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc..

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

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

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

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