Generative Definition & Meaning

generative
adjective
  1. having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces"
  2. 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"

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