About The Word Nutritive
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Nutritive
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What's The Definition Of Nutritive?
[adj] providing nourishment; "good nourishing food"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Nutritive: alimentary | nourishing | nutrient | nutritious | wholesome Related Terms | Find terms related to Nutritive: See Also | Nutritive In Webster's Dictionary \Nu"tri*tive\, a. [Cf. F. nutritif.]
Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions;
having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental;
alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.
{Nutritive plasma}. (Biol.) See {Idioplasma}.
{Nutritive polyp} (Zo["o]l.), any one of the zooids of a
compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and
digestive cavity. -- {Nu"tri*tive*ly}, adv. --
{Nu"tri*tive*ness}, n.
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