refective

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.

That which refreshes.

— His auditors gaine so refreshed him, as to take away the sense of all paine in teaching. Their profit was his refectives and reparatives.
A type of animal that eats its food twice, by reconsuming partially digested matter.

— While the rabbits mentioned in Leviticus 11 appear to chew the cud, we now know that they are not, in fact, ruminants but technically "refectives" - that is , they chew their droppings to better digest their food, not cud like a cow.

形容词 adj.

Refreshing; restoring. obsolete

— Some six or eight hours after repeat the said sudorifick, and thereupon the Refective Cordial.
Nutritional; full of vitamins. obsolete

— Raw potato starch, for instance, has a high refective power, while rice, wheat and rye starches are reported to have little or none.

refectives plural more refective comparative most refective superlative