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Promoting growth; nutritious,

Nutritively; cherishingly.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

Nutritive; nourishing.

Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

odendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.

Nourishing. [Obs.] T. Carew (1633).

Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal.

re or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

te of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.

The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.

The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training. A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise. Milton.

Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth. -- n.

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…

The art of nourishing children properly.