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nourishing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective nourishing has 1 sense
- nourishing(s = adj.all) alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive - of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
nourishing, adj. (esp. of food) containing much nourishment; sustaining.
Derivative
nourishingly adv.
THESAURUS
nourishing
alimental, alimentary, assimilable, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, vegetable-eating, vegetarian
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