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nutritive

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈnjuːtɹətɪv/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eiinrttuvStarts with NEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. of or providing nourishment

Word origin

From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin nūtritīvus, from the participle stem of Latin nūtriō (“to suckle”).

Used in a sentence

  • The juice of the ripe grape is a nutritive and agreeable food, consisting chiefly of sugar and mucilage.
  • The percentage of nutritive elements contained in the parsnip is very small; so small, indeed, that one pound of parsnips affords hardly one fifth of an ounce of nitrogenous or muscle-forming material.
  • D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.

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