nutriment
Americannoun
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any substance or matter that, taken into a living organism, serves to sustain it in its existence, promoting growth, replacing loss, and providing energy.
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anything that nourishes; nourishment; food.
noun
Other Word Forms
- nonnutriment noun
- nutrimental adjective
Etymology
Origin of nutriment
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin nūtrīmentum nourishment, equivalent to nūtrī ( re ) to nourish, feed + -mentum -ment
Example Sentences
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And what nutriment could be more equipped to help carry out this task than the versatile oat, the reliable and hardworking utility player of the human defence system?
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019
Part of the work is assistance of small parishes which cannot provide for their own spiritual nutriment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having settled on the jellylike nutriment intended for the cultivation of a type of bacteria called staphylococci, the fungus had grown into a flourishing mass.
From Time Magazine Archive
The skin cells take root, seedlike, in the moist raw surface, absorb nutriment, proliferate.
From Time Magazine Archive
I would fain at the moment have become bee or lizard, that I might have found fitting nutriment, permanent shelter here.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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