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
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