nutritive

nutritive
nutritively, adv.nutritiveness, n.
/nooh"tri tiv, nyooh"-/, adj.
1. serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
2. of, pertaining to, or concerned with nutrition: foods with high nutritive value.
n.
3. an item of nourishing food: a breakfast of cereals, fruits, and other nutritives.
[1350-1400; < ML nutritivus, equiv. to nutrit- (see NUTRITION) + -ivus -IVE; r. ME nutritif < MF < ML as above]

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