'Digestive' definitions:
Definition of 'digestive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme"; "digestive ferment"
noun
Any substance that promotes digestion
Definition of 'Digestive'
From: GCIDE
- Digestive \Di*gest"ive\, a. [F. digestif, L. digestivus.] Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. [1913 Webster]
- Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.
- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Digestive'
From: GCIDE
- Digestive \Di*gest"ive\, n.
- 1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. --Blackw. Mag. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. --Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [R.] [1913 Webster]