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pre•sump•tive



Pronunciation: (pri-zump'tiv), [key]
—adj.
1. affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
2. based on presumption: a presumptive title.
3. regarded as such by presumption; based on inference.
4. Embryol.pertaining to the part of an embryo that, in the course of normal development, will predictably become a particular structure or region.

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