procreative
- a word derived from procreate.
Example Sentences
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Many investors have come to appreciate the relative stability offered by a commodity once dismissed by the billionaire Warren Buffett as "lifeless" and "neither of much use nor procreative".
From BBC • May 12, 2025
Several times a year, when fever or exhaustion signals that the bugs colonizing her damaged, mucus-clogged lungs are getting overly procreative, Pam heads to a clinic or hospital for IV treatment.
From Salon • Jul. 17, 2022
While he was a monk – not an environment renowned for procreative possibilities – he realised he wanted to have children.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2019
Otherwise, Eufinger wrote, “no certainty can ever be obtained as to the effective functioning of the procreative organs.”
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
The further he strays from primitive types in the effort to improve, by crossing, cutting, and grafting, and proportionably less becomes the procreative force.
From An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges by Anonymous
