Vocabulary Word
Word: nutrition
Definition: process of nourishing or being nourished; CF. malnutrition
Definition: process of nourishing or being nourished; CF. malnutrition
Sentences Containing 'nutrition'
I have made up the loss of blood by nutrition.
For if once he shall begin to dote, his respiration, nutrition, his imaginative, and appetitive, and other natural faculties, may still continue the same: he shall find no want of them.
With plants how remarkable it is that the organs of vegetation, on which their nutrition and life depend, are of little signification; whereas the organs of reproduction, with their product the seed and embryo, are of paramount importance!
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