Usually means: Naming something based on characteristic.
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  1. denominative: Merriam-Webster
  2. denominative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. denominative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. denominative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. denominative: Wordnik
  6. denominative: Wiktionary
  7. denominative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. denominative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. denominative: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Denominative, denominative: Dictionary.com
  11. Denominative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. denominative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Denominative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. denominative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. denominative: FreeDictionary.org
  16. denominative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (denominative)

adjective:  Being a name.
adjective:  Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable.
adjective:  (grammar) Deriving from a noun, or from an adjective, such as the verb destruct from the noun destruction.
noun:  A word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.

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