assimilative's Usage Examples:

The cortex of a young stem is usually green, and plays a more or less important part in the assimilative function.

The Marchantiaceae (see article BRYOPHYTA) show considerable tissue-differentiation, possessing a distinct assimilative system of cells, consisting of branched cell threads packed with chloroplasts and arising from the basal cells of large cavities in the upper part of the thallus.

assimilative layer, and may also by the production of mucilage be of use in the protection of the body in various ways.

The whole arrangement has a strong resemblance to the lacunae, mesophyll and stomata, which form the assimilative and transpiring (water-evaporating) apparatus in the leaves of flowering plants.

This is the case in the Fucaceae, and in a very marked degree in the Laminariaceae in question, where the assimilative frond is borne at the end of an extremely long supporting and conducting stipe.

Community members articulate hybridity discourses as an alternative to those that assert an assimilative whiteness.

What do the British Marxist historians have to offer to the theorizing of social movements?assimilative learning style relies on theorizing and reflection.

In the liverworts we find fixation of the thallus by water-absorbing rhizoids; in certain forms with a localized region of water-absorption the development of a primitive hydrom or water-conducting system; and in others with rather a massive type of thallus the differentiation of a special assimilative and transpiring system.

They appear to have been more ferocious and less assimilative than the other conquering tribes.

While conspicuously lacking in creative genius, the Ottomans have always shown themselves possessed of receptive and assimilative powers to a remarkable degree, the result being that the number of their writers both in prose and verse is enormous.

In philosophy there has been a remarkable increase of activity, partly assimilative or eclectic and partly original.

of supporting axes from assimilating appendages, and as the body increases in size and becomes a solid mass of cells or interwoven threads, a corresponding differentiation of a superficial assimilative system from the deep-lying parts.

Synonyms:

open, receptive,

Antonyms:

unreceptive, cork, bar,