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[syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nutritious
adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn:
alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient,
nutritious, nutritive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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