Usually means: Capable of entering or piercing.
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  1. penetrative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. penetrative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. penetrative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. penetrative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. penetrative: Vocabulary.com
  6. penetrative: Wordnik
  7. penetrative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. penetrative: Wiktionary
  9. penetrative: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Penetrative, penetrative: Dictionary.com
  11. Penetrative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. penetrative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. penetrative: Rhymezone
  14. Penetrative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. penetrative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. penetrative: Free Dictionary
  17. penetrative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. penetrative: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. penetrative: Legal dictionary

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  1. penetrative: Encyclopedia

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adjective:  That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating.
adjective:  Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating.
adjective:  (sports) That can penetrate opposition defences.
adjective:  Pertaining to sexual activity involving penetration by the penis.

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