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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The capability possessed by all living things of undergoing changes in form, size, or structure, as the result of the nutritive processes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.

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