adjective
- Having the ability to produce or originate.
- usage: "generative power"; "generative forces"
- synonyms: productive
- Producing new life or offspring.
- usage: "the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the reproductive or generative organs"
- synonyms: procreative, reproductive
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