Produced or formed by feeding or nourishment; related to or characterized by nutrition and growth.
From Greek 'hesthion' meaning 'food' or 'nourishment,' combined with the suffix '-genous' meaning 'produced by' or 'arising from.' This technical term appears primarily in older scientific and philosophical texts discussing nutrition and bodily functions.
This is an incredibly rare medical and philosophical term from centuries past when doctors tried to explain digestion and growth—it's essentially a predecessor to modern nutritional science, but with a name so obscure that modern scientists just say 'nutritional' instead.
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