Nutriment
['njuːtrɪm(ə)nt] or ['njʊtrəmənt]
Definition
(n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
(n.) That which promotes development or growth.
Typist: Vivienne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Aliment, nourishment, nutrition, food, diet, sustenance, subsistence, provision, fare, regimen, meat, victuals, BREAD, viands, cheer, rations, pabulum, grub, FEED, PROVENDER, FODDER, FORAGE, PROG.
Editor: Terence
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aliment, food, sustenance, nourishment, replenishment, sustentation,{[pibalum]?}
ANT:Starvation, languishment, decay, inanition, exhaustion, poison, detriment
Typed by Edwina
Definition
n. that which nourishes: that which helps forward growth or development: food.—adj. Nū′trient nourishing.—n. anything nourishing.—adj. Nū′trimental having the quality of nutriment or food: nutritious.—n. Nūtri′tion act of nourishing: process of promoting the growth of bodies: that which nourishes: nutriment.—adjs. Nūtri′tional; Nūtri′tious nourishing: promoting growth.—adv. Nūtri′tiously.—n. Nūtri′tiousness.—adjs. Nū′tritive Nū′tritory nourishing: concerned in nutrition.—adv. Nū′tritively.—ns. Nū′tritiveness; Nūtritō′rium the nutritive apparatus.
Checker: Velma
Examples
- The store of nutriment laid up within the seeds of many plants seems at first sight to have no sort of relation to other plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Possibly these several differences may be connected with the different flow of nutriment towards the central and external flowers. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Take the colours and odour from the rose, change the sweet nutriment of mother's milk to gall and poison; as easily might you wean Perdita from love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But it also arises from a condition of the system, since the introduction of nutriment into the blood, apart altogether from the stomach, will relieve it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- No physiologist doubts that a stomach by being adapted to digest vegetable matter alone, or flesh alone, draws most nutriment from these substances. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These, like all his faculties, were active, eager for nutriment, and alive to gratification when it came. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Inputed by Dan