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connective (iou)



connective adjective & noun. M17.
[from CONNECT verb + -IVE, repl. earlier CONNEXIVE.]
A. adjective. Serving or tending to connect. M17.
connective tissue Anatomy tissue connecting and binding other tissues and organs of the body and containing relatively few cells in a non-living matrix, e.g. fibrous tissue and elastic tissue.
B. noun.
1. Grammar & Logic. A connecting word or particle. M18.
2. Botany. The part of the filament which connects the lobes of the anther. M19.
connectival adjective (Botany) of the connective M19.
connectively adverb L16.
connec'tivity noun (chiefly Math. & Logic) the state, property, or degree of being (inter)connected L19.