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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. capable of mentally absorbing ;
- Example: "assimilative processes", "assimilative capacity of the human mind"

2. capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution;
- Example: "an assimilative substance
[syn: assimilating, assimilative, assimilatory]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Assimilative \As*sim"i*la*tive\, a. [Cf. LL. assimilativus, F.
   assimilatif.]
   Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that
   assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative
   process or substance.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

assimilative
    adj 1: capable of mentally absorbing ; "assimilative processes",
           "assimilative capacity of the human mind"
    2: capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution;
       "an assimilative substance [syn: assimilating,
       assimilative, assimilatory]