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Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

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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 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.
  8. j:100 n. any substance that promotes digestion a. relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion