replacive

Denoting replacement.

Adjective

  1. Denoting replacement.
    • Replacive conjuncts indicate that what is being said is a replacement for what has been said before. - 1969, Sidney Greenbaum, Studies in English adverbial usage:
  2. Of or relating to replacement of one mineral by another, or a rock which exhibits such replacement.
    • Early replacive calcite and late replacive calcite exhibit similar carbon isotope and different oxygen isotope compositions. - 2003, M. J. Salem, Khaled M. Oun, Sedimentary Basins of Libya, Second Symposium, page 166:
    • a mass of nodular replacive anhydrite

Origin

From replace + -ive.