'Nutritive' definitions:
Definition of 'nutritive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
Definition of 'Nutritive'
From: GCIDE
- Nutritive \Nu"tri*tive\, a. [Cf. F. nutritif.] Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. [1913 Webster]
- Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma.
- Nutritive polyp (Zool.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. [1913 Webster] -- {Nu"tri*tive*ly}, adv. -- {Nu"tri*tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]