receptive

UK /ɹɪˈsɛptɪv/ US /ɹəˈsɛptɪv/
adj 5

Definitions

adj

1

Capable of receiving something.

2

Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.

receptive to the idea

The patient was receptive to her treatment

3

Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.

When the delightful draught is quaffed and the winged beggar turns to leave, it is confronted with a straight and narrow way out, and before the open can be reached our bee must squeeze under a receptive stigma covered with sticky hairs which comb the pollen grains from the fuzzy back of the visitor.

4

Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.

5

Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.

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