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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1753 of, relating to, or capable of reproduction <highly reproductive wild geese> • reproductively adverb II. noun Date: 1934 an actual or potential parent; specifically a sexually functional social insect

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reproductive Re`pro*duc"tive (-t?v), a. [Cf. F. reproductif.] Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. --Lyell.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Reproductive processes and organs are concerned with the reproduction of living things. ...the female reproductive system. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

Phoenixlike, fecundative, fertilizing, germinal, life-giving, multiparous, procreant, procreative, propagative, re-creative, re-formative, reappearing, regenerative, renascent, reorganizational, restorative, resurgent, revisional, seminal, spermatic, spermatozoic