Digestive
Digestive , adjective
[French digestif, Latin digestivus.]
Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be.
Collocations (2)
Digestive apparatus , the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.
Digestive salt , the chloride of potassium.
Digestive , noun
1.
That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. — Chaucer
That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.
2.
(a) (Medicine) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
(b)
(Medicine) A tonic. [Rare] — Dunglison