01 a. Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutri…
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Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.
Phrases & compounds
Nutritive plasma —
See Idioplasma.
Nutritive polyp —
any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity.