nutritive plasma

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nutritive plasma - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nutritive \Nu"tri*tive\, a. [Cf. F. nutritif.]
     Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions;
     having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental;
     alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.
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     Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma.
  
     Nutritive polyp (Zool.), any one of the zooids of a
        compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and
        digestive cavity.
        [1913 Webster] -- Nu"tri*tive*ly, adv. --
        Nu"tri*tive*ness, n.
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