Generative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Generative \Gen"er*a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. g['e]n['e]ratif.]
     Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or
     producing. "That generative particle." --Bentley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  generative
       adj 1: having the ability to produce or originate; "generative
              power"; "generative forces" [syn: {productive}] [ant:
              {consumptive}]
       2: producing new life or offspring; "tXsXwhe reproductive
          potential of a species is its relative capacity to
          reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the
          reproductive or generative organs" [syn: {procreative}, {reproductive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "generative":
     abiogenetic, aboriginal, basal, basic, biogenetic, blastogenetic,
     causative, central, constructive, creative, crucial, demiurgic,
     elemental, elementary, embryonic, epigenetic, eumerogenetic,
     formative, fundamental, gametic, genetic, genial, genital,
     genitive, germinal, heterogenetic, histogenetic, homogenetic,
     in embryo, in ovo, inventive, isogenetic, merogenetic, metagenetic,
     monogenetic, original, originative, orthogenetic, pangenetic,
     parthenogenetic, phytogenetic, pregnant, primal, primary, primeval,
     primitive, primordial, pristine, productive, protogenic, radical,
     rudimentary, seminal, sporogenous, xenogenetic