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noun

Nutrient n.

Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth; a nutriment.

Specifically: (Microbiology) A substance added to the growth medium of a microorganism to promote growth.

adjective

Nutrient adj. Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.

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Etymology of 'Nutrient'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... are not injured; on the contrary, they have been praised by writers for their beauty and soundness; and the rounded form of the body, whilst they can indulge in the juice, sufficiently testifies to the nutrient qualities of the saccharine beverage."[FN13] Sweetmeats, on the other hand, are most ...

— The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. • Thomas Bull, M.D.

... body, as big as a rape-seed, which is imbedded in a thin jelly, and is familiar to those who are drawn by curiosity to look into the waters of wayside ponds in spring) is a single cell or corpuscle of protoplasm distended with dark-coloured and other granules of nutrient substance. A single sperm (though requiring the microscope to render it visible) is also a single cell. It is a minute oval body, with a long serpentine tail of actively undulating protoplasm. Hundreds of thousands of these ...

— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

... is capable of assimilating, by well-determined and thoroughly specialized processes, the nutrient matter contained in its environment, precisely as the "primordial germ" develops under its environing conditions. From the moment they strike their rootlets into the ground, the processes of development ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... original freely jointed character of the body. A tapeworm as an example of internal parasites is an extremely degenerate form which lacks a digestive tract, because this is superfluous in an animal which lives bathed in the nutrient fluids of its host. Comparing it in other respects with other low wormlike creatures, it appears to be a relative of peculiar simple worms with complete organization and independence of life. All these degenerate forms ...

— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... year, or in precocious animals after the first few months of life. The breeding cow, on the other hand, is subjected to all the disturbances attendant on the gradual enlargement of the womb, the diversion of a large mass of blood to its walls, the constant drain of nutrient materials of all kinds for the nourishment of the fetus, the risks attendant and consequent on abortion and parturition, the dangers of infection from the bull, the risks of sympathetic disturbance in case of serious diseases of other organs, ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

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