Definition of Nurtural

1. Adjective. Resulting from nurture.

Similar to: Nonheritable, Noninheritable
Derivative terms: Nurture

Definition of Nurtural

1. pertaining to the process of nurturing [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nurtural

nursing research
nursing school
nursing services
nursing staff
nursing theory
nursings
nursle
nursled
nursles
nursling
nurslings
nurstle
nurstled
nurstling
nursy
nurtural (current term)
nurturance
nurturances
nurturant
nurture
nurtured
nurturer
nurturers
nurtures
nurturing
nus
nustle
nustled
nustles
nustling

Literary usage of Nurtural

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Progress of Eugenics by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1914)
"To our nurtural eugenics, which everyone is agreed upon, ... Relation between natural and nurtural eugenics.—Now, these two portions of eugenics, ..."

2. Secrets of Animal Life by John Arthur Thomson (1919)
"Corresponding to the " nurtural " changes or peculiarities there are often internal changes in the metabolism. This is admitted by all biologists. ..."

3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1879)
"... in performance in spite of the fact that the latter are older generally than the former, the difference may not be racial after all but only nurtural. ..."

4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"... and the great difficulty of accomplishing to the full the biological result of good breeding without sacrificing the nurtural influences which, ..."

5. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"... is quite conceivable that very unfavorable nurtural conditions may induce prejudicial germinal variations of a heritable sort. ..."

6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Such are heredity and the conditions of existence ; inherited natural capacities, and environmental nurtural experiences. Again, mental functions as thus ..."

7. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Such are heredity and the conditions of existence ; inherited natural capacities, and environmental nurtural experiences. Again, mental functions as thus ..."

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