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adjective
1.
tending or serving to extract, or based upon extraction: coal, oil, copper, and other extractive industries.
2.
capable of being extracted, as from the earth: extractive fuels.
3.
of, pertaining to, or involving extraction: extractive surgery.
noun
5.
something extracted.
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Extractive
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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extractive ex·trac·tive (ĭk-strāk'tĭv)
adj.
Used in or obtained by extraction.
Possible to extract.
Something that may be extracted.
A substance present in tissue that can be separated by successive treatment with solvents and recovered by evaporation of the solution; the insoluble portion of an extract.
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