1. He wrote a book descriptive of the frontier provinces.
    他写了一本描写边疆各省的专著。

1. 描述的;描写的;叙述的;说明的
    Descriptive language or writing indicates what someone or something is like.

    e.g. ...his descriptive way of writing.
           他的描写性写作手法

1. describing the structure of a language

    e.g. descriptive grammar

2. serving to describe or inform or characterized by description

    e.g. the descriptive variable
           a descriptive passage