Definition of Nutrient

1. Noun. Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue.


2. Adjective. Of or providing nourishment. "Good nourishing stew"

3. Noun. Any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis.
Generic synonyms: Substance
Specialized synonyms: Water

Definition of Nutrient

1. a. Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.

Definition of Nutrient

1. Noun. A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue. ¹

2. Adjective. providing nourishment ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nutrient

1. a nourishing substance [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nutrient

1. 1. Nourishing, affording nutriment. 2. A nutritious substance, food or a component of food. Origin: L. Nutriens This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutrient

nutpeckers
nutpick
nutpicks
nutraceutical
nutraceuticals
nutramigen
nutria
nutria rat
nutria rats
nutrias
nutrication
nutriceutical
nutriceuticals
nutrider
nutriders
nutrient (current term)
nutrient agar
nutrient arteries of humerus
nutrient artery
nutrient artery of femur
nutrient artery of fibula
nutrient artery of the tibia
nutrient canal
nutrient enema
nutrient foramen
nutrient medium
nutrient vessel
nutrients
nutrify
nutrigenomics

Literary usage of Nutrient

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1842)
"Fore-Arm 1 Above the entrance of the nutrient vessels of the two bones (superior third). Do. 7 Below the entrance of the nutrient vessels of the two bones ..."

2. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Latterly some other nutrient media have been recommended, but they have not been sufficiently used to require here a description in full. ..."

3. Clinical Diagnosis: The Bacteriological, Chemical, and Microscopical by Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst (1899)
"It is prepared in the same way as nutrient gelatine fluid, only that instead of gelatine 1.5-2 per cent, of finely divided agar-agar is added to the fluid. ..."

4. Food Composition Data: A User's Perspective by William M. Rand (1987)
"Users of nutrient analysis software vary greatly in their degree of sophistication and hold widely varying ideas about what a nutrient data base should ..."

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