EXTRACTIVE
\ɛkstɹˈaktɪv], \ɛkstɹˈaktɪv], \ɛ_k_s_t_ɹ_ˈa_k_t_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of EXTRACTIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Capable of being extracted.
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Anything extracted; an extract.
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A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
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Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.
By Oddity Software
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Capable of being extracted.
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Anything extracted; an extract.
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A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
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Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
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Same etymon. A peculiar, immediate principle, which has been admitted in extracts. Thus, bitter extractive is the immediate principle of bitter vegetables, &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A name given in a chemical analysis of an organic substance to matters present in small quantity and of indeterminate composition which can be extracted or removed by solvents.
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A substance present in most vegetable extracts, and either occurring already formed in the vegetable tissues, or else produced at the time of preparation of the extract by the interaction of the other ingredients. It is at first soluble in water and alcohol, but by evaporation, and by heating in the presence of air, it becomes insoluble.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
