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.
Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. — Nutritive polyp(Zoöl.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity.
— Nu″tri‐tive‐ly, adv. — Nu″tri‐tive‐ness, n.