Nutritive
Nutritive , adjective
[Compare French nutritif.]
Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.
Collocations (2)
Nutritive polyp (Zoology) , any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity.