nutritive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to nutrition or the nourishment of an organism

   Aristotle excludes the merely nutritive function from distinctively human excellence.

2. 2
   noun

   a substance that provides nourishment; a nutrient

   The solution supplies a nutritive required for growth.

From Middle French nutritif and Late Latin nutritivus, from Latin nutrire, "to nourish or suckle."

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