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单词 nutritory
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nutritoryadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin nūtrīt- , nūtrīre , -ory suffix2.
Etymology: < classical Latin nūtrīt-, past participial stem of nūtrīre nourish v. + -ory suffix2. Compare post-classical Latin nutritorius which nourishes, feeds, instructs, of or relating to an infant, foster-child (4th–5th cent.).
Obsolete. rare.
Concerned with or relating to nutrition.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > relating to nutrition
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nutritory1883
1883 Harper's Mag. June 125/1 A class of ailments which may be described as general nutritory perversions.
1892 Proc. Royal Soc. 51 480 They have been differentiated on the exterior as a covering to the nutritory and reproductory cells of the sponge, in order, by reason of their noxious contents, to form some protection to the naked protoplasm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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