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Nutritious definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NUTRI'TIOUS, a. Nourishing; promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies. Milk is very nutritious.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin nutricius, from nutric-, nutrix nurse, from nutrire to nourish — more at nourish Date: 1665 nourishing • nutritiously adverb • nutritiousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. efficient as food; nourishing. Derivatives: nutritiously adv. nutritiousness n. Etymology: L nutritius (as NURSE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nutritious 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Nutritious food contains substances which help your body to be healthy. It is always important to choose enjoyable, nutritious foods... Some ready made meals are nutritious and very easy to prepare. = nourishing ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a.; (also nutritive) Nourishing, strengthening, whole-some, nutrimental, alimental, nutrient.

Moby Thesaurus

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