NUTRITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nutritive mean? 

• NUTRITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective NUTRITIVE has 1 sense:

1. of or providing nourishment

  Familiarity information: NUTRITIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUTRITIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or providing nourishment

Synonyms:

alimental; alimentary; nourishing; nutrient; nutritious; nutritive

Context example:

good nourishing stew

Similar:

wholesome (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being)

Derivation:

nutritiveness (the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth)

 Context examples 

Maintenance of vertebrate tissue after removal from the body, by placing in a vessel with a sterile nutritive medium.

(Culturing, In Vitro Vertebrate, Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

A rectal preparation for therapeutic, diagnostic, or nutritive purposes.

(Enema Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Death of tissue, usually in considerable mass and generally associated with loss of vascular (nutritive) supply and followed by bacterial invasion and putrefaction.

(Gangrene, NCI Thesaurus)

Blackseed oil is used primarily for its nutritive properties.

(Nigella sativa Seed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

It has formative, nutritive, sensory, and protective functions.

(Dental Pulp, NCI Thesaurus)

Maintenance of invertebrate tissue after removal from the body, by placing in a vessel with a sterile nutritive medium.

(Culturing, In Vitro Invertebrate, NCI Thesaurus)

The main goal of this review has been to critically discuss the evidence supporting the effects of nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs), both synthetic sweeteners (acesulfame K, aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin, neotame, advantame, and sucralose) and natural sweeteners (NSs; thaumatin, steviol glucosides, monellin, neohesperidin dihydrochalcone, and glycyrrhizin) and nutritive low‑calorie sweeteners (polyols or sugar alcohols) on the composition of microbiota in the human gut.

(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)