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nutritive value(medicine)
nutritive(dictionary)
nutritive(dictionary)
nutritive ratio(medicine)

macaw (oh) and Nutritive (medicine)


macaw (oh)




[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Portuguese; Origin: macau]
a large brightly coloured bird like a parrot, with a long tail

Nutritive (medicine)


nutritive


Of or pertaining to Nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive Food or berries. Nutritive plasma.

<biology> Any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. Nu"tritively, Nu"tritiveness.

Origin: Cf. F. Nutritif.

Source: Websters Dictionary