nutritious
providing nourishment, especially to a high degree; nourishing; healthful: a good, nutritious meal.
Origin of nutritious
1Other words from nutritious
- nu·tri·tious·ly, adverb
- nu·tri·tious·ness, noun
- non·nu·tri·tious, adjective
- non·nu·tri·tious·ly, adverb
- non·nu·tri·tious·ness, noun
- sub·nu·tri·tious, adjective
- sub·nu·tri·tious·ly, adverb
- sub·nu·tri·tious·ness, noun
- un·nu·tri·tious, adjective
- un·nu·tri·tious·ly, adverb
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How to use nutritious in a sentence
For instance, inhabiting a larger tunnel system may mean more access to the nutritious tubers the mole-rats find and feed upon underground.
Naked mole-rats invade neighboring colonies and steal babies | Jake Buehler | October 20, 2020 | Science NewsWe will succeed or fail based on whether we build a complete technology platform that creates all the foods we get today from animals, but makes them more delicious, more nutritious, affordable, sustainable, and so forth.
Would you like “milk” with that Impossible burger? | James Temple | October 20, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewWe have to make something that to consumers is meat, and is more delicious, nutritious, and affordable than anything that the current technology, a cow or whatever, can produce.
Would you like “milk” with that Impossible burger? | James Temple | October 20, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewA wide variety of nutritious, healthy seaweed types are available.
14 wild edibles you can pull right out of the ocean | By Bob McNally/Field & Stream | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThey’re nutritious, and in my hippie-adjacent family home, they were allowed a place on the shelf beside the muesli and nutritional yeast.
Meat, especially outside the park, is a nutritious but deadly alternative to pine nuts.
More than 15 million Americans eat unhealthy food because nutritious meals are too expensive.
Free Market Failure: Raising a Kid Is a Rigged Game in the USA | Monica Potts | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTruer words were never spoken (except for maybe the whole "nutritious" thing).
An Investigation Into the Delicious Origins of Ice Cream | Andrew Romano | July 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"Ice cream is a nutritious and wholesome food," he declared on July 9, 1984.
An Investigation Into the Delicious Origins of Ice Cream | Andrew Romano | July 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWell, no, actually you are feeding your kids properly by giving them healthy, nutritious food, and emotional sustenance, too.
It’s Not Just the Vaccines. Jenny McCarthy’s New Book Offers More ‘Lessons’ | Tim Teeman | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo food can be substituted for the well-filled udder of the parent, which is so safe, healthful, and nutritious.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenThe progeny were pushed with a full supply of nutritious food, and systematically brought to early maturity.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenThey are oleaginous, and nutritious; and are used as a substitute for almonds.
As an article of food, asparagus, in moderation, is both wholesome and nutritious.
The quinoa seeds, when boiled, are both pleasant and nutritious, but especially so when boiled in milk.
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British Dictionary definitions for nutritious
/ (njuːˈtrɪʃəs) /
nourishing, sometimes to a high degree
Origin of nutritious
1Derived forms of nutritious
- nutritiously, adverb
- nutritiousness, noun
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