nutrition
The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
Other meanings
That which nourishes; nutriment.
“I accidentally ate a worm which was in my apple - my uncle said the extra nutrition would do me good.”
Related words
- chrononutrition
- denutrition
- ethnonutrition
- hypernutrition
- hyponutrition
- immunonutrition
- innutrition
- macronutrition
- malnutrition
- micronutrition
- misnutrition
- nutrigenomics
Word history
From Latin "nutritio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “nutrition” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.