adj capable of being extracted.
2. extractive ·adj tending or serving to extract or draw out.
3. extractive ·noun anything extracted; an extract.
4. extractive ·noun a chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
5. extractive ·noun any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.