nutritive

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

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nutritive (comparative more nutritive, superlative most nutritive)

  1. Of or pertaining to nutrition.
  2. Nourishing, providing nutrition.
    • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 110:
      The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage.
    • 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes[1], Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 243:
      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.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 355:
      D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.

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nutritive (plural nutritives)

  1. (archaic) A nutrient.

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French

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nutritive

  1. feminine singular of nutritif

German

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nutritive

  1. inflection of nutritiv:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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nutritive (comparative plus nutritive, superlative le plus nutritive)

  1. nutritious
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nutritive f

  1. feminine plural of nutritivo

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