different between nutritive vs meroistic

nutritive

English

Etymology

From Middle French nutritif, from Late Latin n?trit?vus, from the participle stem of Latin n?tri? (I suckle).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?nju?t??t?v/

Adjective

nutritive (comparative more nutritive, superlative most nutritive)

  1. Of or pertaining to nutrition.
  2. Nourishing, nutritional.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 355:
      D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.

Antonyms

  • nonnutritive

Derived terms

  • antinutritive
  • innutritive
  • nutritively

Translations

Noun

nutritive (plural nutritives)

  1. (archaic) A nutrient.

Anagrams

  • vetturini

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ny.t?i.tiv/

Adjective

nutritive

  1. feminine singular of nutritif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

nutritive

  1. inflection of nutritiv:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Interlingua

Adjective

nutritive (comparative plus nutritive, superlative le plus nutritive)

  1. nutritious

Related terms

  • nutriente
  • nutrimento
  • nutrition

Italian

Adjective

nutritive f

  1. feminine plural of nutritivo

Anagrams

  • nutritevi, vetturini

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meroistic

English

Etymology

mero- +? -istic

Adjective

meroistic (not comparable)

  1. (biology) Describing ovaries (especially of insects) that secrete nutritive (yolk) material as well as ova

Anagrams

  • eroticism, isometric, microsite

meroistic From the web:

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