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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Nutritive

/no͞ot'-rət-ĭv/ · Nu·tri·tive · IPA /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/
01 a. Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutri…
  1. 1.
    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.