Definition of Nonnitrogenous

1. Adjective. Not nitrogenous. ¹

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Definition of Nonnitrogenous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonnitrogenous

nonneuroleptic
nonneurological
nonneuronal
nonneuropathic
nonneurotic
nonneurotics
nonneutral
nonneutropenic
nonnew
nonnews
nonnewsworthy
nonnewtonian
nonnickel
nonnies
nonnitrogen
nonnitrogenous (current term)
nonnoble
nonnocturnal
nonnodular
nonnodulating
nonnomadic
nonnominal
nonnominated
nonnormal
nonnormalized
nonnormative
nonnormatively
nonnorthern
nonnotable
nonnovel

Literary usage of Nonnitrogenous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Robert Adolph Armand Tigerstedt (1906)
"THE nonnitrogenous SUBSTANCES A. FATS The fats are esters of the triatomic alcohols, the glycerins, with mono- ie fatty acids, chief of which in the animal ..."

2. A General Physiology for High Schools: Based Upon the Nervous System by Maude Little Macy, Harry Waldo Norris (1900)
"It has been estimated by a high authority that a healthful diet contains from three and a half to four and a half times as much of nonnitrogenous as of the ..."

3. Report by Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (1889)
"Further, by combining foods of different compositions according to the proportions of nitrogenous and nonnitrogenous matters which they contain, ..."

4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"The nonnitrogenous matter thus found was not due to incomplete removal of soluble carbohydrates, nor was it mineral in nature, ..."

5. Sanitation for public health nurses: (the Fundamentals of Public Health) by Hibbert Winslow Hill (1919)
"Part of the proteins of the food, the nonnitrogenous fragments broken off from them in digestion, are used also as fuel. Hence the body may be supplied with ..."

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