Generative vs Reproductive - What's the difference?
generative | reproductive |
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
* That generative particle. — Bentley
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Of or relating to reproduction.
That reproduces.
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As adjectives the difference between generative and reproductive
is that generative is having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing while reproductive is of or relating to reproduction.As a noun reproductive is
(biology) a reproductive organism (especially such as in an insect).generative
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.
Synonyms
* creativeAntonyms
* annihilativereproductive
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Adjective
(en adjective)Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, […]. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}