extractive
nounEtymology From extract + -ive.
1
Something that may be extracted
2
The substance left behind after something has been extracted
extractive
adj/ɪksˈtɹæktɪv/
Etymology From extract + -ive.
1
That serves to extract something
- Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc.1874, John Elliott Cairnes, Some Leading Principles of Political Economy, newly Expounded:
2
That withdraws natural resources by extraction
- The extractive industry consists of any operations that remove metals, mineral and aggregates from the earth. Examples of extractive processes include oil and gas extraction, mining, dredging and quarrying.2014, BusinessDictionary.com:
3
Able to be extracted
- Thirty grains of extractive matter.1796, Richard Kirwan, The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils:
- Derived terms
- agroextractive, extractive distillation, extractively, extractiveness, extractive principle, extractivism, extractivist, nonextractive