different between nutritive vs trophosome

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

English

Etymology

tropho- +? -some

Noun

trophosome (plural trophosomes)

1. (biology) The group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan.
2. (biology) The mass of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a pogonophoran that metabolizes sulfide.
3. (anatomy) An organ found in some animals, located in the coelomic cavity, that houses symbiotic bacteria, which in turn provide nutrients to the host animal.

Coordinate terms

• (organ): bacteriome

See also

• (organ): trophosome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia