Accretive
/əˈkɹi.tɪv/ adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. not-comparable
"[…] Vegetables spring up from their Mother Earth; and we can no more discern their accretive Motion, then we can their most hidden cause."
Adjective
- 1 growing by accretion wordnet
Example
More examples"[…] Vegetables spring up from their Mother Earth; and we can no more discern their accretive Motion, then we can their most hidden cause."
Etymology
From accrete + -ive.