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Webster 1913 Edition
Nutritive
Nu′tri-tive
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
nutritif
.] Of or pertaining to nutrition;
as, the
; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; nutritive
functionsas,
. nutritive
food or berriesNutritive plasma
. (Biol.)
See
– Idioplasma
. Nutritive polyp
(Zool.)
, 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
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Nutritive
NU'TRITIVE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
nutritive
nutritive
English
Adjective
nutritive (comparative more nutritive, superlative most nutritive)
- Of or pertaining to nutrition.
- Nourishing, nutritional.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 355:
- D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 355:
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
of or pertaining to nutrition
nourishing, nutritional
Noun
nutritive (plural nutritives)
- (archaic) A nutrient.