Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Nutritious; nourishing.
- adjective Of or relating to nutrition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the property of nourishing; nutritious.
- Of, concerned in, or pertaining to nutrition: as, the nutritive functions or processes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to nutrition; ; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental.
- adjective (Biol.) See
Idioplasma . - adjective (Zoöl.) any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
nutrition - adjective
Nourishing ,nutritional .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or providing nourishment
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Food carried from the stomach to the blood can not become _nutritive_ till it is properly oxygenated in the lungs; so that a small quantity of food, even if less wholesome, may be made nutritive by pure air as it passes through the lungs.
American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Cambridge, England, tells us) is fully equal to beef or mutton in nutritive value to man.
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Bananas, grapes and strawberries contain to each part of proteid from 10 to 12 parts of other solid nutritive constituents (any oil being calculated into starch equivalents); this is termed the nutritive ratio.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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To this tonic impression on the nerves of the stomach the prompt and salutary effects of what are called nutritive medicaments may be attributed, such as chocolate, and every substance that gently stimulates and nourishes at the same time.
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To this tonic impression on the nerves of the stomach the prompt and salutary effects of what are called nutritive medicaments may be attributed, such as chocolate, and every substance that gently stimulates and nourishes at the same time.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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At that point, the other cells begin to putrefy and become what's called the nutritive soup - out of which the imaginal cells create the absolute unpredictable miracle of the butterfly.
Writing on Air 2009
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No single food better defines the Texas character; it has, in fact, become a kind of nutritive metaphor for the romanticized, prairie-hardened personality of Texans.
Independence and chicken-fried steak | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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No single food better defines the Texas character; it has, in fact, become a kind of nutritive metaphor for the romanticized, prairie-hardened personality of Texans.
Archive 2007-03-01 Homesick Texan 2007
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During the first trimester the fetus is a "nutritive" soul, a life principle that we share with animals and plants.
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During the first trimester the fetus is a "nutritive" soul, a life principle that we share with animals and plants.
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