[syn: generative, procreative, reproductive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
generative
adj 1: having the ability to produce or originate; "generative
power"; "generative forces" [syn: generative,
productive] [ant: consumptive]
2: 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" [syn: generative, procreative, reproductive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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