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English → English (gcide) Definition: Nutritive polyp Nutritive \Nu"tri*tive\, a. [Cf. F. nutritif.] Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. [1913 Webster] Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. Nutritive polyp (Zo["o]l.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. [1913 Webster] -- Nu"tri*tive*ly, adv. -- Nu"tri*tive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]