replacive

English

Etymology

From 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