replacive en · ADJ
Etymology
From replace + -ive.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Denoting replacement.
Replacive conjuncts indicate that what is being said is a replacement for what has been said before.
1969, Sidney Greenbaum, Studies in English adverbial usage:
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to replacement of one mineral by another, or a rock which exhibits such replacement.
Early replacive calcite and late replacive calcite exhibit similar carbon isotope and different oxygen isotope compositions.
2003, M. J. Salem, Khaled M. Oun, Sedimentary Basins of Libya, Second Symposium, page 166:a mass of nodular replacive anhydrite