Nutritious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "nutritious":
     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