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That which nourishes; nutriment. Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Pope.

Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.

Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly, adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. -- Nutritive polyp (Zoöl.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive c…

Nutrition; nourishment. [Obs.] Harvey.

The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

A gatherer of nuts.

The act of gathering nuts.

Abounding in nuts.

père. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

The earthnut. [Obs.]

The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for rheumatism.

The nut of the beech tree.

The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.

An American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.

e of some of the Pacific islands. It is used by the natives as a candle. The oil from the nut ( candlenut, or kekune, oil) has many uses.

The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesce) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.