nutritive
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/
adj
Etymology: From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“to suckle”).
- Of or pertaining to nutrition.
- 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.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“to suckle”).
- A nutrient.