innutritious
- a word derived from innutrition.
Example Sentences
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Here again we have to do with bulky insects whose subterranean larvae and nymphs feed on comparatively innutritious roots.
From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)
It is well suited to our permanent pastures, where it should be fed close, otherwise it becomes wiry and innutritious, and cattle refuse it.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Jennings, Robert
If the food is deficient in innutritious matter, the tendency is, to produce an inactive and diseased condition of the digestive organs.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
Since vegetation is scanty and innutritious, and the waters of the frozen regions abound in animal life, they must rely wholly upon a diet derived from the latter source.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Hutchison, Joseph Chrisman
Causes.—When old animals are fed on innutritious feed or when reduced by disease, they become anemic; in other words, their blood becomes impoverished and dropsy may follow.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
