apertive

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A substance that can be used medicinally for its apertive effect.
    — The Love Bush seems to have been used in olden days in medicine, for Browne in 1789 writes: "It has been always esteemed as a diuretic and apertive, and formerly used as an ingredient in come of the compositions of the shops".
形容词 adj.
  1. Causing the body to open; dissolving blockages or having a purgative or diuretic effect.
    — Both its root and seeds are hydragogeous, and very apertive, and therefuore usefull in hydroptical and watry diseases.
  2. Pertaining to or using an aperture; apertural.
    — In this part the author leaves the stylus method and passes on to the interference method, which is very valuable because it can resolve scratches down to a width of about 0.00002" or 0.00003", provided that a high apertive microscope objective is used.
  3. Tending to open.
    — Prefractures are weak or apertive when the prefixed vowel has a greater closure formed by the tongue or lips than the original vowel, so that the result is a progressive opening.

词形变化

more apertive comparative most apertive superlative apertives plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin apertūra (“opening”) + -ive.
词源 2
From Latin apertūra (“opening”) + -ive.
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