absorbative

adjective

ab·​sorb·​a·​tive əb-ˈsȯr-bə-tiv 

-ˈzȯr- also ab-

: absorptive

He had enjoyed the life with the peculiar appropriative, assimilative, absorbative gust of the typical schoolboy.

—L. B. Walford, Longman's Magazine, 1893

… mycorrhizae increase the absorbative power of root systems … by 10 to 1,000 times.

—Rachel Foster, Eugene Weekly, 8 Nov. 2007

Word History

Etymology

absorb + -ative

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined above

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