Definition of nourishment

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Nourishment (n.) The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition..

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Pabulum :: Pabulum (n.) The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum..
Innutritious :: Innutritious (a.) Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.
Fertilize :: Fertilize (v. t.) To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows..
Blood :: Blood (n.) The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial..
Fast :: Fast (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
Parasite :: Parasite (n.) A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte..
Must :: Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws..
Milk :: Milk (n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts..
Inalimental :: Inalimental (a.) Affording no aliment or nourishment.
Nourish :: Nourish (v. i.) To gain nourishment.
Breast :: Breast (n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..
Nourishment :: Nourishment (n.) That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food.
Wean :: Wean (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment..
Nursing :: Nursing (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant..
Fast :: Fast (v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
Innutrition :: Innutrition (n.) Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment.
Assimilate :: Assimilate (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue..
Feeder :: Feeder (n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward..
Aerophyte :: Aerophyte (n.) A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte..
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