replacive

English

Etymology

replace +‎ -ive

Adjective

replacive (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Denoting replacement.
    • 1969, Sidney Greenbaum, Studies in English adverbial usage:
      Replacive conjuncts indicate that what is being said is a replacement for what has been said before.
  2. (mineralogy) Of or relating to replacement of one mineral by another, or a rock which exhibits such replacement.
    • 2003, M. J. Salem, Khaled M. Oun, Sedimentary Basins of Libya, Second Symposium, page 166:
      Early replacive calcite and late replacive calcite exhibit similar carbon isotope and different oxygen isotope compositions.
    a mass of nodular replacive anhydrite
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