oxidative en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɑk.səˌdeɪ.tɪv/ (US)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From oxide + -ative or oxidate + -ive.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Of, relating to, or produced by oxidation.
It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
2013 March 14, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83:
Antonyms
Deriveds
nonoxidative · prooxidative · oxidative stress · autooxidative · nitrooxidative · oxidatively · electrooxidative · superoxidative · hyperoxidative · antioxidative · preoxidative · photooxidative · oxidative phosphorylation · inoxidative
Translations (8)
fi oksidatiivinen (Relating to oxidation) · hu oxidatív (Relating to oxidation) · tr oksidatif (Relating to oxidation) · it ossidativo (Relating to oxidation) · id oksidatif (Relating to oxidation) · fr oxydatif (Relating to oxidation) · pt oxidativo (Relating to oxidation) · es oxidativo (Relating to oxidation)