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.
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{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.
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