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The quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth
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nutritiousness
Word definitions for nutritiousness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nutritious \Nu*tri"tious\, a. [L. nutricius, nutritius, from nutrix, -icis, a nurse, nutrire to nourish. See Nurse , Nourish .] Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly , adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness , n.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth [syn: nutritiveness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. nourishment
Usage examples of nutritiousness.
But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.