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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..

Vasoformative :: Vasoformative (a.) Concerned in the development and formation of blood vessels and blood corpuscles; as, the vasoformative cells..

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..

Demiurgic :: Demiurgic (a.) Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

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

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

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

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

-ation :: -ation () A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization..

Bioplast :: Bioplast (n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Creant :: Creant (a.) Creative; formative.

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

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

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

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