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Definition of Nutritive
1. Adjective. Of or providing nourishment. "Good nourishing stew"
Similar to: Wholesome
Derivative terms: Aliment, Nourish, Nourish, Nutrient, Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutritiousness, Nutritiveness
Definition of Nutritive
1. a. Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.
Definition of Nutritive
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to nutrition ¹
2. Adjective. Nourishing, nutritional. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nutritive
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Nutritive
1.
Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutritive
Literary usage of Nutritive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1891)
"I HAVE been asked to consider this subject mainly from the chemical standpoint
and to furnish some information regarding the nutritive value of the various ..."
2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"C. Decision on the nutritive Value and nutritive Cost of Articles of Food. § 224.
In considering the nutritive value of foods we ask : —How much albumen, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1781)
"... nutritive Vegetables, which was crowned by the Academy of Befan- çon. ...
nutritive. The ufe of potatoes, their mixture with the meal or flour of ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"V.—On tie Slate of the nutritive Functions during the Progress of Continued Fever.
By BEDFORD BROWN, MD, Yancey ville, Caswell Co., NC ACCORDING to present ..."
5. Food and the principles of dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1906)
"nutritive VALU» OF MILK. V 1 ' It is frequently said that milk is a perfect food.
... It must contain all the nutritive constituents required by the body ..."
6. Principles of human physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter, Henry Power (1864)
"Varying Activity of the nutritive Processes.—Reparative Operations. 336.
Without any change in the character of the nutritive processes, ..."
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