Nutritious
[njʊ'trɪʃəs] or [nʊ'trɪʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.
Typist: Tabitha
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Nourishing, strengthening, wholesome.
Typed by Laverne
Examples
- The swimming-bladders or sounds, besides being highly nutritious, supply, if rightly prepared, isinglass equal to the best of that which is brought from Russia. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In South America there are some trees known as cow-trees which, when wounded, yield a rich, milky, nutritious juice in such abundance as to render it an important article of food. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The same varieties of the cabbage do not yield abundant and nutritious foliage and a copious supply of oil-bearing seeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This balanced ration is said to be the most nutritious food and the quickest fattener which can be given to animals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typed by Laverne