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innutrition

American  
[in-noo-trish-uhn, -nyoo-] / ˌɪn nuˈtrɪʃ ən, -nyu- /

noun

  1. lack of nutrition.


innutrition British  
/ ˌɪnjuːˈtrɪʃən /

noun

  1. lack or absence of nutrition Compare malnutrition

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of innutrition

First recorded in 1790–1800; in- 3 + nutrition

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A horse with a badly deformed scissor-mouth is unable to grind the feed, and unless given special care, suffers severely from innutrition.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

It should not be classed as a disease, but more correctly as a bad habit, or symptom of innutrition or indigestion.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

It appears, then, that a mixture of blood has a favorable effect on the metabolism of the organism, comparable to that of abundant nutrition, and that innutrition and in-and-in breeding are alike prejudicial.

From Sex and Society by Thomas, William I.

Their one sacred obligation to the immortal germ-plasm of which they are the trustees is to see that they hand it on with its maximal possibilities undimmed by innutrition, poisons or vice.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.

Their timid possessor seemed to be a girl of seventeen, whose figure, although apparently clad in one of her mother's gowns, was still undeveloped and repressed by rustic hardship and innutrition.

From Susy, a story of the Plains by Harte, Bret

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