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

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

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

Esemplastic :: Esemplastic (a.) Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity..

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.) Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts..

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..

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

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

-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..

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

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

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

Afformative :: Afformative (n.) An affix.

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

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

Plastide :: Plastide (n.) A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under Morphon.

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

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..

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

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