reproductivelyadv.
/ˌriːprəˈdʌktᵻvli/, U.S. /ˌriprəˈdəktᵻvli/ In a reproductive manner; in terms of reproduction or reproductive capacity.
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1802 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Apr. 229 When it acts reproductively, it constitutes what we term local memory.
1860 Michigan Jrnl. Educ. 7 365 The mind of the child—how is it divided, and in what order is it naturally developed? 1st. Perceptively; 2d. Reproductively; 3d. Rationatively.
1883 Chicago Advance 3 May None can..have been so reproductively fruitful as that first one.
1951 G. H. M. Lawrence Taxon. Vascular Plants viii. 182 The species..as conceived by the biosystematist, is a group of interbreeding or potentially interbreeding individuals reproductively isolated from other groups of individuals.
1986 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 313 125 The mouths within a polystomatous meander..function reproductively as separate zooids.
2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 18 Apr. ii. 2/2 I know that, reproductively, I am no spring chicken.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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