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formatrices

formatrices is the plural of formatrix.

Meaning of formatrix

Noun

formatrix (plural formatrixes or formatrices)

  1. (obsolete) A formative faculty.
    • By which laſt Obſervables, we ſee that there may be very pretty body ſhap’d and concreeted by Mechanical principles, without the leaſt ſhew or probability of any other ſeminal formatrix.1665, R[obert] Hooke, “Obſerv[ation]. XX. Of blue Mould, and of the firſt Principles of Vegetation ariſing from Putrefaction.”, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies...

Questions about formatrices

What is formatrices the plural of?
Formatrices is the plural of formatrix.

Words near formatrices in the dictionary

  1. formatized
  2. formatizes
  3. formatizing
  4. formator
  5. formators
  6. formatrices
  7. formatrix
  8. formatrixes
  9. formats
  10. formattable
  11. formatted

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