Usually means: Supporting or maintaining existence, essential.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sustentative: Merriam-Webster
  2. sustentative: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sustentative: Wordnik
  4. sustentative: Wiktionary
  5. sustentative: Dictionary.com
  6. Sustentative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. sustentative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Sustentative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. sustentative: FreeDictionary.org
  10. sustentative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Sustentative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sustentative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sustentative)

adjective:  Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate.
adjective:  (biology) Relating to those functions of the body which affect its material composition and thus determine its mass.

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