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possessive

1. pos.ses.sive \p*-'zes-iv also -'ses-\ aj 1: of, relating to, or 
   constituting a word, a word group, or a grammatical  case that denotes 
   ownership or a relation analogous to ownership 2: manifesting possession or 
   the desire to possess or own  - pos.ses.sive.ly av
2. possessive n 1a: the possessive case  1b: a word in the possessive case  
   2: a possessive word or word group