nutritiveness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
nutritiveness
    n 1: the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy
         growth [syn: {nutritiousness}, {nutritiveness}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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