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Afformative :: Afformative (n.) An affix.

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

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..

-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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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