nutritive
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The pioneers are the seabirds, whose fishy guano provides a nutritive anchor for air and seaborne seeds.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023
Fall is a great time to add a percolating layer of compost as a nutritive mulch on new or existing beds, or even on a lawn.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
It’s not nutritive; the physiological ramifications are dire and well documented.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2018
She has been subsisting on a diet of “Slurry,” a “fully dystopian” nutritive gel.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2017
Did he bring home nutritive roots and brew homeopathic teas?
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
