nutriment

/noo-truh-muhnt, nyoo-/US // ˈnu trə mənt, ˈnyu- //UK // (ˈnjuːtrɪmənt) //

营养品,营养,营养剂,营养物质

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n.名词 noun

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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.
- : anything that nourishes; nourishment; food.

nounfood

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This feature is highly beneficial for anyone with a home garden or other plantings requiring nutriments.
She habitually ate chocolates for their sustaining quality; they contained much nutriment in small compass, she said.
Barley was not much used, for it was thought to lack nutriment, and therefore to be unfit for laborers.
The Normal Schools are sustained by the common schools; and these latter, in return, draw their best nutriment from the former.
It is apparent therefore, that whatever nutriment or energy Sanatogen supplies must be dependent on its main constituent casein.
It is very good food; one acre gives as much nutriment as six acres of wheat.