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Definition: Extractive
Extractive
\Ex*tract"ive\, a. [Cf. F. extractif.]
1. Capable of being extracted.
“Thirty grains of extractive
matter.” --Kirwan.
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2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
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Certain branches of industry are conveniently
designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral
and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc.
--Cairnes.
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Extractive
\Ex*tract"ive\, n.
1. Anything extracted; an extract.
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Extractives, of which the most constant are urea,
kreatin, and grape sugar. --H. N.
Martin.
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2. (Chem.)
(a) A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all
extracts. [Obs.]
(b) 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.
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