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Nutritive

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to nutrition.
  2. 2
    Nourishing, providing nutrition.

    "The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or providing nourishment wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A nutrient. archaic

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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