duplicative (du plikativ)

[= F. duplica tif; as duplicate + -ive.] Having the quality of duplicating or doubling; especially, in physiol., having the quality of duplicating or dividing into two by natural growth or spontaneous division. In the lowest forms of Vegetable life, the primordial germ multiplies itself by duplicative subdivision into an apparently unlimited number of cells. W. B. Carpenter , in Grove's Corr. of Forces. duplicatopectinate (dū-pli-ka-to-pek'ti-nāt), a. [ duplicate + pectinate.] In entom., having the branches of bipectinate antenne on each side alternately long and short.