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Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing. "That generative particle." Bentley.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences. H. Bushnell. Regenerative furnace (Metal.), a furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.

So as to regenerate.

Begetting young by retrocopulation.

A cavity in ascidians into which the intestine and generative ducts open, and which also receives the water from the gills. See Ascidioidea.

The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization.

Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent. Johnson. Frigid zone, that part of the earth which lies between either polar circle and its pole. It extends 23Arctic.

Generative; producing; esp. (Geom.),

Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive. "The genial bed." Milton. Creator Venus, genial power of love. Dryden.

Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs. Genital cord (Anat.), a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.

One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. Wiedersheim.

Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative. -- n.

r menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.

A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus.

The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.

Having the power to beget; generative. Sir M. Hale.