progenitive

American  

[proh-jen-i-tiv] / proʊˈdʒɛn ɪ tɪv /

adjective

1. capable of having offspring; reproductive.

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progenitive British  

/ prəʊˈdʒɛnɪtɪv /

adjective

1. capable of bearing offspring

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Other Word Forms

• progenitiveness noun

Etymology

Origin of progenitive

First recorded in 1830–40; progenit(or) + -ive

Example Sentences

This kind of reading is necessarily singular and labor-intensive rather than dialectical or progenitive.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2010

Thus a spiritual gingham impressed upon his soul of souls a matrix, out of which, by a fine progenitive effort, he now begets and ejects a materialized gingham into a potato-plot of the garden without.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

The Gauchos call the former the "Padre del sal," and the latter the "Madre;" they state that these progenitive salts always occur on the borders of the salinas, when the water begins to evaporate.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles