See Also: nutrition(dictionary)
Nutrition(medicine)
nutrition(encyclopedia)
nutrition(dictionary)
Enteral nutrition(health)
parenteral nutrition(medicine)
Nutrition surveys(medicine)
nutrition policy(medicine)
nutrition assessment(medicine)
infant nutrition(medicine)

gibbon (iou) and nutrition (iou)


gibbon (iou)



gibbon noun. L18.
[French, of unkn. origin.]
Any of various small long-armed tailless arboreal apes of the SE Asian genus Hylobates.

nutrition (iou)



Nutrition noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or late Latin nutritio(n-), from nutrit- pa. ppl stem of nutrire nourish: see -ITION.]
The action or process of supplying or receiving nourishment. LME.
T. R. Malthus The kind of Food..best suited to the purposes of Nutrition.
b. The practice of adding oil etc. to a preparation to make an ointment or unguent. Cf. NUTRITUM. rare. E17-E18.
That which nourishes; Food, nourishment; diet. L15.
S. Kitzinger Nutrition can play a part in preventing bones becoming fragile. S. Bellow Lichens could take Nutrition from the atmosphere.
The branch of science that deals with (esp. human) nutrients and Nutrition. E20.
J. Yudkin Twenty-five or so scientists who have made notable contributions to..Nutrition.
nutritional adjective M19.
nutritionalist noun = nutritionist M20.
nutritionally adverb with respect to Nutrition L19.
nutritionist noun an expert in or student of (esp. human) nutrients and Nutrition E20.