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adjective

nourishing; providing nourishment or nutriment.

containing or conveying nutriment, as solutions or vessels of the body.

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noun

a nutrient substance.

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Nutrients is always a great word to know.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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Origin:
1640–50; < Latin nūtrient- (stem of nūtriēns), present participle of nūtrīre to feed, nourish; see -ent

Related forms

non·nu·tri·ent, adjective, noun

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Spinach brings a variety of nutrients to this appealing frittata.

The researchers expect less excess nutrients in the runoff as the plants on the roof continue to grow.

And plant breeders tend to raise cereals which maximise calories, not nutrients.

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Spinach brings a variety of nutrients to this appealing frittata.

The researchers expect less excess nutrients in the runoff as the plants on the roof continue to grow.

And plant breeders tend to raise cereals which maximise calories, not nutrients.

The samples showed that concentrations of micron-sized organisms called picoplankton decreased while nutrients increased.

They've got carbon, oxygen, they've got a few nutrients.

They may be unhealthy and lacking in vital nutrients.

These are in direct contact with the soil and increase the surface area available for absorption of water and nutrients.

Humans use plants to mine nutrients out of the soil and then eat them.

Nutrients that leach from foods into the canning liquid can be reclaimed if the liquid is added to a soup, stew or sauce.

Mulching instead of pebbles might be a less expensive route to filling in the gaps, plus it can add some nutrients to the soil.

Better yet, bugs provide more nutrients than beef or fish, gram for gram.

The researchers expected some of the nutrients to end up in other embryos.

Vitamins and minerals in supplements are synthetic forms of the nutrients.

With the help of nutrients from the soil, plus water and light, it will continue to grow to maturity.

To grow well, these root vegetables need evenly moist soil and some added nutrients.

US scientists said they changed the coat colors of baby mice by supplementing their mothers' diets with common nutrients.

Treatment should first address any missing nutrients and other medical problems, such as lead exposure.

They seem to prefer living in sand or in rocky outcrops-environments poor in nutrients such as nitrogen.

Rotate agricultural crops to prevent the sapping of nutrients.

One of the problems with boiling veggies is that the nutrients leech out into the water.

The reasoning behind the recommendation is that natural colors often reflect what nutrients a food contains.

The larger maples have extensive fibrous root systems that take water and nutrients from the topsoil.

Energy from the sun, carbon dioxide from the air, and nutrients from water and soil make plants grow.

Neither is a significant source of nutrients, although nutrients that might otherwise leach out may cling to vermiculite.

Others say it will block the flow of nutrients to floodplains farmed by river dwellers.

Sarmiento's model, which links the resupply of the sunken nutrients to a single circulation pattern, provides an answer.

Several years ago nutritionists raised concerns that the microwaves depleted nutrients in food.

Stir in a controlled-release fertilizer to provide a steady supply of nutrients.

But the plant wasn't getting its nutrients by munching on the tiny bats.

Malabsorption is difficulty absorbing nutrients from food.

Farmers are reluctant to stop spreading manure on their land, since it replaces nutrients depleted by crops.

These nutrients foster life stacked upon life stacked upon life.

It can remove a whole lot of carbon from our atmosphere and return nutrients to deserts in the oceans.

Most potting soil mixes contain few or no nutrients.

To grow a plant, you buy a seed-pod, a capsule which contains both seeds and nutrients.

Seek out whole-grain breads, which retain fiber and nutrients from the germ and bran.

One question scientists are keen to address is exactly how such tiny doses of nutrients achieve such big changes in behaviour.

They return nutrients to the soil by burning dead or decaying matter.

Sensory information from taste cells is critical for helping us to detect and respond appropriately to needed nutrients.

Besides deforming plants, the galls may cause serious damage by interrupting the flow of water and nutrients.

They affect what lives and grows, how nutrients cycle and even how disease spreads.

Malabsorptive operations restrict both food intake and the amount of calories and nutrients the body absorbs.

The local soil is the colour of cement and almost as rich in nutrients.

All fertilizers supply plants with the nutrients your garden needs to be in tip-top shape.

Nutrients such as protein and calcium are supplied by blood vessels within the bone, not from outside of the bone tissue.

In general, some nutrients cannot be efficiently absorbed by plant roots if soil pH is too high.

Their roots become home to biofilms that gobble nitrates and phosphates, denying those nutrients to algal blooms.

It may be caused by a lack of nutrients in a person's diet or by the body's inability to absorb nutrients from food.

In the hills, torrents of water washed soil away, or left it but rinsed the nutrients out of it.

Like other sponges, vase sponges feed on filtered nutrients drawn in with water through their pores.

But in autumn, the tree begins to break these tissues down in order to reabsorb their nutrients for the winter.

As it decomposes, organic matter releases nutrients that are absorbed by soil-dwelling microorganisms and bacteria.

He added radiation-laced nutrients to the water samples.

In the open ocean, surface nutrients are limited and phytoplankton are scarce.

Water helps animals take in nutrients and get rid of waste.

The real drawback to farming is the loss of nutrients in the soil.

Whole-wheat pastry flour adds nutrients without compromising taste or texture.

The organisms take in carbon and give off all sorts of nutrients that plants need to thrive.

Intense rainfall, it warned, leads to nutrients being more easily washed out.

Sarmiento equates the sinking nutrients in the ocean to leaves falling off trees.

Researchers have known for some time that in order to develop normally, embryos require adequate amounts of certain key nutrients.

In early summer, the spent annuals were mowed and raked into the soil to supply added nutrients.

There it breaks down connective tissue and muscle and nerves into digestible nutrients.

People need essential nutrients in order to have good brain chemistry.

Every crop people grow takes nutrients from the soil.

Depletion of soil nutrients has reached crisis proportions.

Clematis need regular watering and a steady supply of nutrients.

Test soil annually to figure out what nutrients it needs for the first few seasons.

If nutrients are needed they can be delivered precisely, which would cut down on inputs.

Aphids drink sap, a sticky fluid that carries nutrients through the plant.

As you reduce the population of salmon, you reduce the transportation of nutrients.

Most liquid types can also be sprayed on rose leaves, which absorb some nutrients immediately.

Rivers are overused and dammed, preventing sediments and nutrients from reaching deltas where life can flourish.

Composting recycles nutrients back to the soil, benefiting plant growth.

Tubers are an enlarged, underground stem that uptake and store nutrients from the soil.

The compost used to amend the soil at planting time supplies enough nutrients to carry the crops through winter.

The chemical brews gushing out of the vents provide nutrients for deep-sea life.

The bodies of the poor often lack enough nutrients to rebuff diseases.

Commercial products containing chelates of all three nutrients are available as foliar sprays.

Organic gardening and agriculture focus on the improvement of soils to provide plants with nutrients.

The falling ice stirs the bay waters, bringing nutrients to the surface that the gulls dive to devour.

If your compost is a good mixture of bulking and energy-producing materials, you should not need to add nutrients.

If it is to perform well the next year, those nutrients must be replenished.

In nature, nutrients recycle efficiently on their own.

Mulch also blocks weeds, which steal water and nutrients needed by desirable plants.

Leaf compost aerates the soil and improves root growth by holding nutrients in the soil until plants can use them.

As in any container, nutrients are leached out with every watering.

Compost tea includes the nutrients of solid compost but will not compact or add too much fill to your.

They complete the cycle of life, returning nutrients to the soil or oceans for use by autotrophs.

Vermicomposting, or worm composting, is an efficient way to turn kitchen scraps into rich nutrients for your veggie patch.

To maintain a high body temperature and high metabolism, mammals need an efficient way to digest and absorb nutrients from food.

Algae called zooxanthellae give corals not only their color but also much of their nutrients.

People have long suspected that the radiation microwave ovens emit can destroy nutrients in food.

The nutrients plants need for good health are typically divided into three groups: macronutrients.

That's because many of the nutrients in leafy green.

By killing sensitive bugs, they leave more space and nutrients for resistant ones to thrive.

Instead, the vanishing embryos' nutrients turned up inside the father.

We can even measure the amount of nutrients that a crop can mine for.

The studies do not suggest that these nutrients are cures or even treatments for arthritic pain.

Able to thrive on nutrients in animal waste, duckweed produces far more starch per acre than corn, say researchers.

Much is washed off by rain, ending up in local watercourses where dissolved nutrients can cause algal blooms and kill fish.

The bright red leaves of autumn deliver more nutrients to the trees than they would without the brilliant coloration.

If it is too low, on the other hand, nutrients may be.

Or you can grow algae in dilute urine which is an easy way to get the right nutrients and reduce your impact on the environment.

There is tons of positive research on many of the nutrients in airbone.

The reason for the region's low biological activity relative to the high levels of some nutrients is a little harder to pin down.

Everyone knows that light, water and nutrients in soil affect how well plants grow.

However, organic and inorganic fertilizers supply nutrients to soil in.

Nutrients in foods-or a lack of them-can influence memory, learning, concentration and decision making.

How you prepare a food influences the nutrients that end up on your plate.

The problem here is that there are unknown nutrients and other chemicals/compounds that are beneficial to human health.

Toasted flaxseeds bring nutrients and nutty flavor to a variety of dishes.

All the nutrients in the world won't help a plant that's drying out faster in the summer and getting colder during the winter.

It retains water and nutrients to help young plants grow.

Mushrooms are low in calories and packed with nutrients.

If our food is irradiated people will not be able to get any of the natural nutrients that exist in food.

Critics say these studies were poorly done, are biased and dealt with tiny differences in nutrients.

Because the necessary frequent watering leaches nutrients from potting mix, container plants need regular feeding.

When plants die and decompose, nutrients go back into the soil.

The net result is that the two microbes digest wood into sugars and other nutrients of use to the termite.

Plankton in the open ocean need a precise mixture of sunlight in shallower waters and nutrients from the deep.

Vegetables not only provide nutrients and flavor but also help to keep the turkey moist.

Plant roots quickly use up the nutrients in the small amount of soil in containers, so you have to feed often.

The disorder can block oxygen and nutrients from traveling to an unborn baby via the placenta.

Because they grew in marshy, infertile soil, they had to devise other ways to find nutrients.

Plants, fungi, and other nutrients make up the rest of their food.

The cascading water is extremely saline, has almost no oxygen and no real nutrients to speak of.

As a result, alcohol can impair the absorption of essential nutrients.

The fungi decomposers return the nutrients back to the plants growing in the forest.

Stone fruits and berries bring nutrients and color to this easy crumble.

These species play a critical role in the ecosystem by breaking down waste to recycle its nutrients into the soil.

In bogs and swamps where nutrients are scarce and insects are abundant, carnivorous plants eat what's available: everything from.

Fans of fizzy milk products say they're appealing because they combine a flavorful bite with nutrients that soft drinks lack.

It impairs the absorption of nutrients from the intestines, causing malabsorption.

The lake is currently described as oligotrophic, meaning its waters are clear and low in nutrients.

Those particles and more then half of the nutrients that used to be in the soil have been depleted.

Most of these materials come from air and tap water, but some trace nutrients need to be supplemented.

The researchers guess that pandas rely entirely on communities of gut microbes for extracting nutrients from bamboo.

Those include upwelling of nutrients and warmer-than-usual ocean waters.

So you do have to add more nutrients into the soil as they grow.

Woodruff said, because they provide the hormones and nutrients that the egg needs to grow.

Many orchids are epiphytes-plants that grow by obtaining nutrients and moisture from the air-and are often found living in trees.

Swallowing difficulties may keep the patient from getting enough fluids and nutrients.

At the beginning its leaves were plagued with white spots, which the researchers chalked up to insufficient nutrients.

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Word Origin & History

nutrient

1650 (adj.), "providing nourishment," from L. nutrientem (nom. nutriens), prp. of nutrire "nourish" (see nourish). The noun meaning "a nutritious substance" is first attested 1828, from the adj.

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Medical Dictionary

nutrient nu·tri·ent (n&oomacr;'trē-ənt, ny&oomacr;'-)
n.
A source of nourishment, especially an ingredient in a food.

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Science Dictionary

nutrient

'trē-ənt) Pronunciation Key
A substance that provides nourishment for growth or metabolism. Plants absorb nutrients mainly from the soil in the form of minerals and other inorganic compounds, and animals obtain nutrients from ingested foods.

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