Word Meaning

Meaning of extractive

- Capable of being extracted.
- Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
- Anything extracted; an extract.
- A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
- Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.