- (a.) Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
- (a.) Capable of being extracted.
- (n.) A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
- (n.) Anything extracted; an extract.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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