Sentence example with the word 'nutritive'

nutritive

Definition adj. of or providing nourishment

Last update: July 1, 2015


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A bitter principle to which the name of quercin has been applied by Gerber, its discoverer, has also been detected in the acorn of the common oak; the nutritive portion seems chiefly a form of starch.   [Please select]

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Otherwise expressed, the influence of variations of light upon plants causes adaptive reactions, and disturbances of the nutritive processes and growth.   [Please select]

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The animal subsequently requires little attention, beyond a change of bed and a fair supply of nutritive food.   [Please select]

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Haemoxanthine: a dissolved albuminoid in the insect blood, which has both a respiratory and nutritive function.   [Please select]

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Nutritive chamber: an enlarged section of ovarian tube, filled with granular nutritive material used in developing the egg cells.   [Please select]

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Syncitium: masses of protoplasm with nuclei, found in ovarian tubes; giving rise to ova, nutritive cells or both.   [Please select]

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Yolk: the nutritive matter of an egg as distinguished from the living, formative material; = deutoplasm.   [Please select]

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He recognized, furthermore, three stages in this activity: the nutritive, sensitive, and rational souls, or the vegetable, animal, and distinctively human natures, respectively.   [Please select]

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Bread raised more slowly is not so nutritious, because some of the nutritive elements are destroyed in the fermentation which goes on in the slow process.   [Please select]

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