depositive

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English

Adjective

depositive (not comparable)

  1. Involving or relating to the process of depositing.
    • 1916, Wilber Stout, Geology of Southern Ohio:
      Thus a coal stratum found in one locality may not be exactly on the same stratigraphic level as another found not far distant, but both were laid down during a period when the general depositive conditions were the same; []
  2. (medicine) Describing a condition in which lymph is exuded into the derma, forming papules.