An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
NUTRITIVE
alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive
(adjective) of or providing nourishment; “good nourishing stew”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
nutritive (comparative more nutritive, superlative most nutritive)
Of or pertaining to nutrition.
Nourishing, nutritional.
Antonyms
• nonnutritive
Noun
nutritive (plural nutritives)
(archaic) A nutrient.
Anagrams
• vetturini
Source: Wiktionary
Nu"tri*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. nutritif.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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