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nutrient
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Word definitions for nutrient in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. providing nourishment n. A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Meat is rich in nutrients. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Phosphorus is a nutrient used in fertilizer that helps plants grow. ▪ Tenderly he wiped its mouth and nostrils and eyes as it coughed into life, vomiting saline nutrient ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nutrient \Nu"tri*ent\, n. n. Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth; a nutriment. Specifically: (Microbiology) A substance added to the growth medium of a microorganism to promote growth.
Usage examples of nutrient.
First National Flightpaths informed Daniel that the Annex could no longer supply him with the liquid nutrient by which Boa was kept alive.
It is much more important, you see, than measuring nutrient levels and concocting chemical formulae for the annihilation of borer beetles.
The nutrients in the juice will slow down the absorption of the water by your dehydrated system.
Isle, in the Firmary tanks where naked bodies arrived, were fixed by the bubbling nutrient and blue worms, and were faxed back.
It is stated that the amount of inoculating material thus obtained is only limited by the quantity of the nutrient water solution used in increasing the germs, so that the cost of inoculating land by this process is not large.
They contain folate, lycopene, and other nutrients to keep arteries young.
The extra fat also has another advantage: It helps absorb fat-soluble nutrients like the lycopene in tomatoes.
There they lived on impregnated pasteboard which was salvaged from the latrines, reimpregnated with nutrients and vitamins, deodorized and sterilized, and issued again the next day.
We filled the molds with water, nutrients, and nourishing electrical currents, then inoculated them with totipotent cells.
It involves placing a blood sample in a culture of nutrients and then waiting twenty-four to seventy-two hours to see if an anthrax colony grows.
Then he noted their smoothness, the absence of tiny cilia or branchlets capable of extracting water and nutrients from the soil.
Standing by the incubators and glove boxes, not thinking about anything in particular, breathing in the familiar odors of warm plastic and hypochlorite, the faint tang of methanol and the yeasty must of nutrient concentrate, allowing them to calm her.
Illa knew, spread for acres, holding the soil and secreting microfauna to defend against native parasites and rework the local minerals into compatible nutrients.
The tank proteome, a mucoid slime of nutrients and tailored hormones, was beginning to prepare his body for the life he left behind.
Sardines have lots of a nutrient called prostaglandin, which makes them effective against all kinds of diseases.