Word Meanings - NUTRIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth. -- n.

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• PROMOTE
  1. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born
• PROMOTER
  1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
• PROMOTIVE
  Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.
• NOURISH
  1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Is. xliv. 14. 2. To support; to maintain. Whiles I in
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• GROWTHFUL
  Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
• PROMOTION
  The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. Milton. Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from
• NOURISHING
  Promoting growth; nutritious,
• NOURISHER
  One who, or that which, nourishes. Milton.
• NOURISHMENT
  1. The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition. 2. That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker.
• NUTRITIOUS
  Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly, adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness, n.
• NOURISHABLE
  1. Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body. Grew. 2. Capable of giving nourishment. Bp. Hall.
• NOURISHINGLY
  Nutritively; cherishingly.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• UPGROWTH
  The process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green.
• CONNUTRITIOUS
  Nutritious by force of habit; -- said of certain kinds of food. Crabb.
• OVERGROWTH
  Excessive growth.
• REGROWTH
  The act of regrowing; a second or new growth. Darwin. The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off. A. B. Buckley.
• AFTERGROWTH
  A second growth or crop, or development. J. S. Mill.