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Nutritive vs Trophosome - What's the difference?

nutritive | trophosome |

As an adjective nutritive

is of or pertaining to nutrition.

As a noun trophosome is

(biology) the group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan.

nutritive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to nutrition
  • nourishing, nutritional
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 355:
    • D'Argenson reckoned that its consumption held up so well in times of high prices because the poor thought that it had nutritive value.

    Antonyms

    * nonnutritive

    Derived terms

    * antinutritive * innutritive * nutritively

    trophosome

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) The group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan
  • (biology) The mass of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a pogonophoran that metabolizes sulfide