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Another word for nutritive

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Adjective

  1. Providing nourishment

    See also:

    ingestion

  2. Of or relating to food or nutrition

    See also:

    ingestion

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Another word for nutritive

Modifier
  1. See also:

    healthful

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Sentence Examples

  • Siphons or nutritive appendages, from which the order takes its.

  • An apparent, but not real, exception is Halecium halecinum, in which the blastostyle is produced from the side of a nutritive polyp, and both are enclosed in a common theca without a partition between them (Allman [1] p. 50, fig.

  • A bitter principle to which the name of quercin has been applied by Gerber, its discoverer, has also been detected in the acorn of the common oak; the nutritive portion seems chiefly a form of starch.

  • A cormidium may contain a single nutritive siphon (" monogastric ") or several siphons (" polygastric ").

  • - Diagram of Tubularia entiated into nutritive and indivisa.

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