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digestive

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme"; "digestive ferment"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Digestive \Di*gest"ive\, n. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. --Chaucer. That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. --Blackw. Mag. (Med.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French digestif (14c.), from Late Latin digestivus "pertaining to digestion," from past participle stem of Latin digerere (see digest (n.)). From 1530s as an adjective. The noun in the French form digestif is attested from 1908.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES digestive biscuit digestive organs (= the stomach, intestines etc, used to digest food ) ▪ a disorder of the digestive organs sb’s digestive/reproductive/nervous system (= in someone’s body ) ▪ These vitamins are ...

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Usage examples of digestive.

How it could be so close to certain of not killing acidophilus and other helpful bacteria in our digestive systems?

Although it has long been known that pepsin with acetic acid has the power of digesting albuminous compounds, it appeared advisable to ascertain whether acetic acid could be replaced, without the loss of digestive power, by the allied acids which are believed to occur in the secretion of Drosera, namely, propionic, butyric, or valerianic.

Curry played havoc with her digestive system and even as she ate it, enjoying the flavor, she made a mental note to take an antacid later.

Because they were cheap, she said up scraping plates, and later, in the pall fallen over the room, the dark casements and the cold hearth, the only movement a fugitive couple kissing on the silent screen and the unascribed bleat of digestive juices you know what I never understand here?

The digestive organs were double and separate as far as the lower third of the ilium, and the cecum was on the left side and single, in common with the lower bowel.

I will now give in detail my experiments on the digestive power of the secretion of Drosera, dividing the substances tried into two series, namely those which are digested more or less completely, and those which are not digested.

The digestive process apparently is rather slower than in Drosera, and this agrees with the length of time during which the leaves remain closed over digestible objects.

And Dracunculus, the legendary fiery serpent, will cut a swath from digestive tract to epidermis, erupting from the skin in a blaze of necrotic glory.

I turned the Bumbler on Festina, I could see the germs in her lungs, her stomach, her digestive tract, her bloodstream.

So when the word had reached him that Boba Fett was dead, dissolved in the digestive secretions of the Sarlacc beast, a combination of elation and frustration had welled up inside him.

Sanderson tried this substance with artificial digestive fluid, in the manner described under globulin, and found that whilst 1.

The adequate nutrition of the organic tissues demands a plentiful supply of pure blood, or the digestive apparatus will become impaired, the mental processes deranged, and the entire bony and muscular systems will lose their strength and elasticity, and be incapacitated for labor.

Not for feedingit had no digestive system, fueling itself by pumping sulfiderich water through internal lamellae dense with symbiotic carbon-fixing symbiotic bacteriabut for attack.

The most extraordinary was that, as far as he could discern, the legger had no digestive system.

She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea.