reproductive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite producing new life or offspring
    generative; procreative.
    • the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions
    • the reproductive or generative organs

WordNet


Re`pro*duc"tive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. reproductif.
Definitions
  1. Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

Webster 1913