illustrative

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

illustrative
    adj 1: clarifying by use of examples [syn: {exemplifying},
           {illustrative}]
    2: serving to demonstrate [syn: {demonstrative}, {illustrative}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Illustrative \Il*lus"tra*tive\, a.
   1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or
      elucidate.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Making illustrious. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "illustrative":
      allegorizing, annotative, apish, clarifying, critical, delineatory,
      demonstrative, demythologizing, depictive, echoic, editorial,
      elucidative, embodying, enlightening, euhemeristic, exegetic,
      exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory,
      expositive, expository, figurative, glossarial, graphic,
      ideographic, illuminating, illuminative, illustrational, imitative,
      incarnating, limning, mimetic, mimish, onomatopoeic, personifying,
      pictographic, pictorial, portraying, rationalistic, rationalizing,
      representational, representative, representing, scholiastic,
      simulative, symbolizing, typifying, vivid