Noun: apertive
| Singular | apertive |
| Plural | apertives |
Sample Sentences
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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". [1942, Natural History Society of Jamaica, Natural History Notes, page 149:]
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Gentian has been used for centuries as a tonic to aid digestion; and it is currently employed in the manufacture of apertives and bitters, notably Gentiane, a Swiss digestive liquor. [1979, Jane I. LaRue, Guide to selected medicinal herbs, page 10:]
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The bark is also used in a liquid given as an apertive to horses and cattle. [1999, J. C. Dagar, Plant Resources of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, page 475:]
Nouns inflected like apertive
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin apertūra (“opening”) + -ive. See: Latin Nouns '
apertūra'.