digestive salt

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digestive salt - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Digestive \Di*gest"ive\, a. [F. digestif, L. digestivus.]
     Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote
     digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
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           Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
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     Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the
        alimentary canal and glands connected with it.
  
     Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.
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