nutritious

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nūtrīcius.

adj

  1. (of food or drink) Providing nutrients; healthy to eat.
  2. (figurative) Salutary.
    A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction. 1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247

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