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| albumen |
the nutritive substance surrounding an embryo or seed, such as the white of an egg. [1/2 definitions] |
| cassava |
any of several tropical American plants with a tuberous root that yields a nutritive starch. [1/2 definitions] |
| nonnutritive |
combined form of nutritive. |
| royal jelly |
a gelatinous, highly nutritive secretion of the maxillary glands of worker honeybees, fed to all larvae initially and then as the only food to those selected to become queen bees. |
| trophic |
of or relating to nutrition or nutritive processes. |
| yolk |
the yellow nutritive substance in an egg, consisting of protein and fat, that is involved directly in the formation of the embryo. |
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