nutrition

Borrowed from Middle French nutrition, from Old French nutricion, from Latin nutritio.

• (UK) enPR: nyo͞o-trĭʹ-shən, IPA^(key): /njuːˈtɹɪ.ʃən/
• (US) enPR: no͞o-trĭʹ-shən, IPA^(key): /nuˈtɹɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

nutrition (usually uncountable, plural nutritions)

1. (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
   • 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization‎, Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:

     In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […]

2. That which nourishes; nutriment.

   I accidentally ate a worm which was in my apple - my uncle said the extra nutrition would do me good.

• nutritial
• nutritional
• nutritionalist
• nutritionally
• nutritionism
• nutritionist

• nutrient
• nutritious
• nutriture

• nutrition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Late Latin nūtrītiōnem, from Latin nūtriōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ny.tʁi.sjɔ̃/

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nutrition f (plural nutritions)

1. nutrition

• nourrir

• “nutrition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

nutrition (uncountable)

1. nutrition