Trophosome with polyps always differentiated into nutritive and reproductive individuals (blastostyles) enclosed in hydrothecae and gonothecae respectively; with sympodial type of budding.
In other colonies the two functions of the nutritive polyp, namely, capture and digestion of food, may be shared between different polyps (fig.
In the curious polyp Myriothela the body of the polyp is differentiated into nutritive and reproductive portions.
The calyptoblastic polyp of the nutritive type is very uniform in character, its tendency to variation being limited, as it were, by the enclosing hydrotheca.
Siphons or nutritive appendages, from which the order takes its name; never absent and usually present in great numbers (fig.
The polyp-individuals form the nutritive siphosome or trophosome.
The medusa-buds, as already stated, are always produced from blastostyles, reduced non-nutritive polyps without mouth or tentacles.
The seeds of the white Poppy yield by expression a bland nutritive oil, which may be substituted for that of olives, or sweet almonds, in cooking, and for similar uses.
The proportion of nutritive substance to the water and vegetable fibre is very small.
The proportion of muscle-forming food (nitrogen) in the Potato is very small, and it takes ten and a half pounds of the tubers to equal one pound of butcher's meat in nutritive value.
A nutritivestarchy product named Salep, or Saloop, is prepared from the roots of the common Male Orchis, and its infusion or decoction was taken generally in this country as a beverage before the introduction of tea and coffee.
There was to be an end of their miserable meals of raw mollusks and yamph roots, whose nutritive elements boiling water and simple cooking in the ashes had never developed.
On crushing them there was obtainable a flour well fitted for making into bread, but, even eaten as they were, they proved much like potatoes of highly nutritive quality.
Decidedly, if the oyster did not absolutely replace bread and meat, it furnished an aliment in no whit less nutritive and in a condition capable of being absorbed in large quantities.
The permutations and combinations may be due to a struggle between the elements which are the bearers of the heritable qualities, or they may be due to fluctuations in the nutritive stream which the body supplies to its germ-cells.
No one believes this, Weismann least of all, for he finds one of the chief sources of germinal variation in the nutritive stimuli exerted on the germ-plasm by the varying state of the body.
Thus a cell, for instance, as it grows, must get into physiological difficulties, for the nutritive necessities of the increasing volume are ever less adequately supplied by the less rapidly increasing absorbent surface.
The result, if the bread is skilfully made, will be a delicious and nutritive loaf of the farmhouse type with a sweet nutty flavour.
Eggs= are nutritive chiefly on account of the albumen which they contain in the white portion, but they are liable to cause digestive trouble, and they must not be taken too freely by those who are subject to biliousness and constipation.
Taken alone it can not be called a nutritive food; but eaten with butter or milk and eggs, or as by the East Indians in curry, it holds an important place.
While in actual analysis fruits have less nutritive value than vegetables, their acids and salts give to them the power of counteracting the unhealthy states brought about by the long use of dried or salted provisions.
In Dutch and factory cheeses, where the curd has been precipitated by hydrochloric acid, the food value is less than where rennet is used; but even in this case, it is far beyond meat in actual nutritive power.
Feeding on too rich a pasture, or a sudden change from an herbage deficient in nutritive qualities, to one that is much superior.
As an essential ingredient in the provender of herbivorous animals, it may, I think, be admitted as a fact, that its importance is in an inverse ratio with the nutritive powers of the food.
She had a persistent wish to be moving all the time, despite her emaciation and the exhaustion of the nutritive functions.
A poor sour grass, which is too effectually sheltered from the rays of the sun, to be possessed of any nutritive and fattening properties, shoots up in the intervals.
Uncooked, it passes by the most simple processes of assimilation from the digestive to the nutritive and circulatory organs, and is at once employed in nourishing or sustaining the bodily functions.
The dozen or more ounces of rich, nutritive material, parted with in twenty-two days, would seem to be a prodigious draught upon the small physical structure of the bird, but there were no indications of exhaustion.
The Stem and its subdivisions or branches raise to the light and air the leaves and flowers, serve as channels for the passage to them of fluids from the roots, and act as reservoirs for nutritive substances.
In other cases, where the buds themselves contain a sufficiency of nutritive matter for the young growths, the retention of leaves is not necessary.
Circulating Apparatus for thenutritive fluids in the Coral.
But it was reserved for Ehrenberg to avail himself of the same artifice in order to study the internal structure and mode of absorbing nutritive matter in these minute creatures.
The corpuscles of nutritive substances directed towards the buccal orifice by the vibratile cils soon disappear in the interior of the animal.
When examined anatomically, the bladder is found to be composed of two walls of membrane, which are lined with cilia, and have between them the nutritive food which supplies the place of the blood.
These cils seem to determine the currents of the liquid, leading the nutritive corpuscles suspended in the water towards the entrance of the digestive apparatus.
The nutritive system is very simple, presenting in most of the family a single orifice in the centre of the lower surface of the body, destitute of teeth, performing the functions both of mouth and anus.
But the best of food can not be changed into nutritive blood till it is vitalized by pure air in the lungs.
They have almost banished the genuine, old-fashioned roast-meat from our tables, and left in its stead dried meats with their most precious and nutritive juices evaporated.
The potato, nutritiveand harmless as it appears, belongs to a family suspected of very dangerous traits.
This is a most frugal, agreeable, and nutritive meal; it will neither lighten the purse, nor lie heavy on the stomach, and will furnish a plentiful and pleasant soup and meat for eight persons.
On the comparatively nutritive qualities of fish, see N.
A succulent soup can never be made but in a well-closed vessel, which preserves the nutritive parts by preventing their dissipation.
The quantity of digestiblenutritive matter in 1000 lb.
The chief business of the gut is to provide a vascular surface to which the prepared food is applied so that the nutritive material may be absorbed into the system.
Fresh sweet almonds are nutritive and demulcent, but as the outer brown skin sometimes causes irritation of the alimentary canal, they are blanched by removal of this skin when used at dessert.
Most undoubtedly, the digestion of food in the human body is a purely chemical process; and the passage of the nutritive parts of that food into the blood, a physical operation.
Attempts have been made to inject nutritive substances through the skin, or, and this is a more usual procedure, by the rectum.
The absence of a digestive tract in an animal that lives in an environment rich in dissolved nutritive material (as for instance tapeworms living in the intestinal tract) is not surprising.
But when creatures of the sea or of fresh water have no digestive tract, their life can be maintained only at the expense of nutritivematerial stored within them during embryonic life.
When it is inoculated deep in a nutritive medium, it dies in a few days, death, without doubt, being due to the lactic acid produced by the microbe from the sugar and not neutralised.
Although it does not ruminate and possesses a simple stomach, the process of digestion is slow, and enormous masses of nutritive material accumulate in the huge large intestine.
The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.
To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes.
If the nutritive system is wrong, the evil of poor nourishment and bad assimilation infects the whole economy.
The difference in the nutritive value of boiled rice and rice cooked over boiling water.
There is a difference in flavor, but no difference in the nutritive value of yellow and of white corn-meal.
The nutritive value of milk is high in proportion to the effort required to digest and assimilate it.
The difference in cost is based upon the tenderness of the cut of meat, and upon the demand,--not upon the nutritive value.
Highly seasoned sauces should be served only with foods that are insipid in taste, but valuable for their nutritive properties.
Explain why the per cent of nutrients in a food does not always indicate the quantity of nourishment that the nutrients yield to the body (see Per Cent of Nutrients; Nutritive Values).
In the consideration of nutritive value, the personal factor enters, for some persons assimilate food much more easily or completely than others.
The nutritive value of a pound of sweetbreads is much less than that of a pound of beefsteak.
The covering of the carrot and new potato is so thin that it can be removed by scraping, thereby saving the valuable nutritive substances just beneath the skin.
Most fish contains more water than does beef, hence it has not as high a nutritive value.
There is no better way to overcome food prejudices than by learning to prepare foods well--to make them tasty and nutritious--and to appreciate their nutritive value.
There remains (for the Jacobins) to crush out what is left of this laborious and nutritive fiber; the remnant of useful energy has to be destroyed down to its extirpation among the people.
It may not be unnecessary to observe that by steaming potatoes lose no weight; hence we conclude that the nutritive equivalent for the boiled is the same as that of the raw tuber.
The nutritive or vegetative soul is therefore, according to Aristotle (De Anima, II.
A succulent soup can never be made but in a well closed vessel, which preserves the nutritive parts by preventing their dissipation, yet the flavour is perhaps more wholesome by an exposure to the air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nutritive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: edible; nourishing; nutriment; nutritious
