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Connective   Listen
noun
Connective  n.  That which connects. Specifically:
(a)
(Gram.) A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition.
(b)
(Bot.) That part of an anther which connects its thecae, lobes, or cells.





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"Connective" Quotes from Famous Books



... In the familiar connective-tissue, or "binding-stuff," we find a process similar in kind but differing in the degree, so to speak, of ...
— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson
... st., has grown downwards so as to touch the back of a bee alighting on the lip of the flower, and gather pollen from it. 3. Diagram of one of the two stamens. f. The stalk or filament of the stamen. a1. The pollen-producing half-anther, eo. The elongated connective joining it to the sterile half-anther. 4. Section through a flower showing ov. the ovary; nec. the nectary or honey-glands; st. the style; li. the lip of the flower on which the bee alights. 5. Similar section showing the effect of the ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
... the 'was', or 'is', ought to be rendered positively, or objectively, and not as a mere connective: 'The Word Is God', and saith, 'I Am the Lord; there is no God besides me', the Supreme Being, 'Deitas objectiva'. The Father saith, 'I Am ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Words linked to "Connective" :   ground, connexion, line, telephone line, hookup, connection, temporary hookup, junction, connecter, instrumentation, coordinating conjunction, connector, instrumentality, conjunctive, subordinate conjunction, bond, backbone, continuative, yoke, conjunction, connectivity, jumper, slip ring, earth, patch, function word, subordinating conjunction, telephone circuit


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