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nutritive

adj
/ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/UK

Etymology

From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“to suckle”).

  1. derived from nūtriō — “to suckle”
  2. derived from nūtritīvus
  3. derived from nutritif

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to nutrition.

  2. Nourishing, providing nutrition.

    • The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage.
    • The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.
    • D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.

  3. A nutrient.

The neighborhood

Derived

antinutritive, innutritive, isonutritive, nutritively, nutritiveness, unnutritive

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA