ap·pos·i·tive 
Function: adjective 
Date: 1693 
: of, relating to, or standing in grammatical apposition

ap·po·si·tion 
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 a : a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent
nouns having the same referent stand in the same syntactical
relation to the rest of a sentence (as the poet and Burns in "a
biography of the poet Burns") b : the relation of one of such a
pair of nouns or noun equivalents to the other
2 a : an act or instance of apposing; specifically : the
deposition of successive layers upon those already present (as
in cell walls) b : the state of being apposed