About The Word Nutritious
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Nutritious
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What's The Definition Of Nutritious?
[adj] providing nourishment; "good nourishing food"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Nutritious: alimentary | nourishing | nutrient | nutritive | wholesome Related Terms | Find terms related to Nutritious: alimental | alimentary | assimilable | balanced | beneficial | cannibal | cannibalistic | carnivorous | commensal | dietetic | digestible | dining | eating | feeding | flesh-eating | fruitarian | gastronomic | gluttonous | good | grain-eating | graminivorous | granivorous | grass-eating | healthful | healthy | herbivorous | insect-eating | insectivorous | lactovegetarian | life-giving | man-eating | meat-eating | mensal | nourishing | nutrient | nutritive | omnivorous | omophagous | pantophagous | phytivorous | phytophagous | plant-eating | postprandial | prandial | predacious | preprandial | salubrious | salutary | vegetable-eating | vegetarian | wholesome See Also | Nutritious In Webster's Dictionary \Nu*tri"tious\, a. [L. nutricius, nutritius, from
nutrix, -icis, a nurse, nutrire to nourish. See {Nurse},
{Nourish}.]
Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.
-- {Nu*tri"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Nu*tri"tious*ness}, n.
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