Usually means: Removing parts from a whole.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word extractive:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. extractive: Merriam-Webster
  2. extractive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extractive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extractive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Extractive, extractive: Wordnik
  6. extractive: Wiktionary
  7. extractive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. extractive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. extractive: Dictionary.com
  10. Extractive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. extractive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Extractive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. extractive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. extractive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. extractive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. extractive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. extractive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extractive)

adjective:  That serves to extract something
adjective:  That withdraws natural resources by extraction
adjective:  Able to be extracted
noun:  Something that may be extracted
noun:  The substance left behind after something has been extracted

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