Digestive /(?)/
Di·gest·ive
Digestive
a.
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Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be.
Phrases & Compounds
- Digestive apparatus
- the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.
- Digestive salt
- the chloride of potassium.
Digestive
n.
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That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.
- A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. (Med.) [R.]