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decoctive

decoctive adjective: serving to decoct.

Adjective

decoctive (not comparable)

  1. Serving to decoct.
    • More or less change was effected, however, in nearly all cases, and the augitic and feldspathic and olivinitic minerals were reduced, by the decoctive action of the water, to chloritic and micaceous elements.1801, Newton Horace Winchell, Horace Vaughn Winchell, The Iron Ores of Minnesota, page 26

Origin of decoctive

From decoct + -ive.

Questions about decoctive

What does decoctive mean?
Decoctive means serving to decoct.
What part of speech is decoctive?
Decoctive is an adjective.

Words near decoctive in the dictionary

  1. decocted
  2. decoctible
  3. decocting
  4. decoction
  5. decoctions
  6. decoctive
  7. decocts
  8. decocture
  9. decoctures
  10. decodabilities
  11. decodability

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