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

Afformative :: Afformative (n.) An affix.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Form :: Form (n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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