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Adjective: constitutive  'kón-sti`t(y)oo-tiv or kun'sti-chu-tiv
  1. Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
    "They attended a workshop on the constitutive relations of soils"
    - constituent, constitutional, organic, component

See also: essential

Encyclopedia: Constitutive