Found 2 items, similar to Digestive.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: digestive
digestive
adj : relating to or having the power to cause or promote
digestion;
“digestive juices”;
“a digestive enzyme”;
“digestive ferment”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Digestive
Digestive
\Di*gest"ive\, a. [F. digestif, L. digestivus.]
Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote
digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
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Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. --B.
Jonson.
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Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the
alimentary canal and glands connected with it.
Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.
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Digestive
\Di*gest"ive\, n.
1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
--Chaucer.
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That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as
necessary as the meal itself. --Blackw. Mag.
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2. (Med.)
(a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer,
promotes suppuration. --Dunglison.
(b) A tonic. [R.]
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