the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to nutrition; ; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having the property of nourishing; nutritious.
Of, concerned in, or pertaining to nutrition: as, the nutritive functions or processes.
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adj. of or providing nourishment
Word Usage
""Food carried from the stomach to the blood can not become _nutritive_ till it is properly oxygenated in the lungs; so that a small quantity of food, even if less wholesome, may be made nutritive by pure air as it passes through the lungs."