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NUTRIENT |
Nutriment |
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NUTRITION |
That which nourishes; nutriment. |
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NOURISH |
To promote growth; to furnish nutriment. |
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NOURISHMENT |
That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. |
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STARVELING |
One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or
nutriment. |
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ALIMENTATION |
The act or process of affording nutriment; the
function of the alimentary canal. |
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LIGHT |
Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as,
light food; also, containing little nutriment. |
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VEGETATE |
To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of
roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. |
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ASSIMILATION |
The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid
substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption,
whether in plants or animals. |
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ALIMENT |
That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which
feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries
of life generally: sustenance; means of support. |
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SOIL |
The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound
substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly
adapted to support and nourish them. |
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VITELLIGENOUS |
...d
to certain cells (also called nutritive, or yolk, cells) formed in the
ovaries of many insects, and supposed to supply nutriment to the
dev... |
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PABULUM |
The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food;
nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire;
that upon which the mi... |
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FOOD |
... by being
received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a
plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals fo... |
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PEMMICAN |
...in the
sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and
compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in s... |
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GEMMULE |
...hout the system,
and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and
ultimately develop into cells like those from which they ... |
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ROOT |
...ters,
and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A
true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attache... |