nutritive
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“I suckle”).
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Adjective[edit]
nutritive (comparative more nutritive, superlative most nutritive)
- Of or pertaining to nutrition.
- 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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Translations[edit]
of or pertaining to nutrition
nourishing, providing nutrition
Noun[edit]
nutritive (plural nutritives)
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nutritive
German[edit]
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Audio (file)
Adjective[edit]
nutritive
- inflection of nutritiv:
Interlingua[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nutritive (comparative plus nutritive, superlative le plus nutritive)
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Italian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nutritive f
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