Nutritive Synonyms

no͝otrĭ-tĭv, nyo͝o-
Providing nourishment
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. alimentary
  2. nutritious
  3. nourishing
  4. nutrient
  5. edible
  6. wholesome
  7. alimental
Of or relating to food or nutrition
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. alimentary
  2. nutritional

Words Related to Nutritive

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. healthful
  2. ingestion
  3. digestibility
  4. phytonutrient

Nutritive Sentence Examples

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

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

  • 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.

  • In this way the hydroid colony becomes composed of two portions of different function, the nutritive " trophosome," composed of non-sexual polyps, and the reproductive " gonosome," composed of sexual medusaindividuals, which never exercise a nutritive function while attached to the colony.

  • The growth or increase of the protoplasm at the expense of the nutritive matter for a time keeps pace with the increased size of the cell, but by and by it becomes vacuolated as more and more water is attracted into the interior.

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