nutritorium (nutritorium)

[NL. (cf. ML. nutritorium, a nursery), neut. of LL. nutritorius, nutritive: see nutritional.] In biol., the nutritive apparatus, or entire physical mechanism of nutrition. It includes not only the organs which directly furnish nourishment and so repair waste, but also those which eliminate the refuse of the proce . The term is correlated with motorium and sensorium. nutritory (nutri-tō-ri), a. [ nutrition. I think if you saw me you would hardly know me, such Nutriture this deep sanguine Alicant Grape gives. with it of le nutriture. Howell , Letters, I. i. 25. Never make a meal of flesh alone; have some other meat Harvey, Consumptions. nut-rush (nut'rush), n. A plant of the genus Scleria, with nut-like fruit.