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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Explanatory \Ex*plan"a*to*ry\, adjective [L. explanatorius.] Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
explanatory
adjective: serving or intended to explain or make clear; "explanatory notes"; "an explanatory paragraph"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "explanatory": allegorizing, annotative, clarifying, critical, demonstrative, demythologizing, descriptive, discursive, editorial, elucidative, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic, exegetical, exemplificative, explaining, explicative, explicatory, expositional, expositive, expository, glossarial, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, interpretative, interpretive, rationalistic, rationalizing, revelatory, scholiastic
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