nutritive
Americanadjective
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serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
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of, relating to, or concerned with nutrition.
foods with high nutritive value.
noun
adjective
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providing nourishment
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of, concerning, or promoting nutrition
noun
Other Word Forms
- hypernutritive adjective
- nonnutritive adjective
- nonnutritively adverb
- nonnutritiveness noun
- nutritively adverb
- nutritiveness noun
- unnutritive adjective
Etymology
Origin of nutritive
1350–1400; < Medieval Latin nūtrītīvus, equivalent to nūtrīt- ( nutrition ) + -īvus -ive; replacing Middle English nutritif < Middle French < Medieval Latin as above
Example Sentences
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The pioneers are the seabirds, whose fishy guano provides a nutritive anchor for air and seaborne seeds.
From Scientific American
Once milk flows, the baby will switch to a different, nutritive suck pattern.
From Washington Post
Fall is a great time to add a percolating layer of compost as a nutritive mulch on new or existing beds, or even on a lawn.
From Seattle Times
Small-scale, ecofriendly cultivation methods using indigenous knowledge and inputs and cutting-edge science increase the variety, nutritive value and quantity of foods produced on farms while stabilizing rural economies, promoting gender equity and protecting biodiversity.
From Scientific American
On the flip side, nutritive sweeteners are sugar's "cousins" and are slightly less sweet than table sugar.
From Salon
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