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Adjective: extractive  ik'strak-tiv or ek'strak-tiv
  1. Capable of being extracted
     
  2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out
Noun: extractive  ik'strak-tiv or ek'strak-tiv
  1. A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts
     
  2. 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
     
  3. Anything extracted; an extract

Derived forms: extractives

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