Adjective
- 1. generative (vs. consumptive), productive
- usage: having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces"
- 2. generative, procreative, reproductive, fruitful (vs. unfruitful)
- usage: producing new life or offspring; "the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the reproductive or generative organs"
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