Meaning of NUTRITIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | noo'trishus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] providing nourishment; "good nourishing food" |
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| | Synonyms: | | alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, wholesome |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Nu*tri"tious\, a. [L. nutricius, nutritius, from
nutrix, -icis, a nurse, nutrire to nourish. See {Nurse},
{Nourish}.]
Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.
-- {Nu*tri"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Nu*tri"tious*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | alimental, alimentary, assimilable, balanced, beneficial, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, good, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, healthful, healthy, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, life-giving, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, salubrious, salutary, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, wholesome |
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