Thesaurus: digestive

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1. a. Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
2. n. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
3. n. A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
4. n. A tonic.
5. adj. relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion
6. n. any substance that promotes digestion
7. Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium. 1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer. That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag. 2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [R.]
8. Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promotedigestion; as, the digestive ferments.Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson.Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. thealimentary canal and glands connected with it.-- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.
9. j:100 n. any substance that promotes digestion a. relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion