| 单词 | nutrient |
| 释义 | nutrient (once / 4008 pages) nadj A nutrient is anything that nourishes a living being. We humans get our nutrients from what we eat, plants get theirs from the soil. While the best nutrients are natural, we can also get them from vitamins in a bottle. The words nutrient and nourish both come from the Latin word nūtrīre, "to feed, nurse, support, preserve." Although usually used as a noun, the word nutrient started out in 1650 as an adjective meaning "providing nourishment." It's important to your health to get the proper nutrients, so the food pyramid was developed by nutritionists to show you the balance of foods you need each day. WORD FAMILYnutrient: nutrients+/nutrify: nutrient, nutrition/nutrition: nutritional, nutritionist, nutritions, nutritious/nutritional: nutritionally/nutritionist: nutritionists/nutritious: nutritiously, nutritiousness USAGE EXAMPLESThat’s because the ecosystem already established in your gut determines how it absorbs and processes nutrients. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Conservation tillage also reduces erosion and loss of nutrients and sediment from farm fields. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) Waterways carry the nutrients to lakes or coastal areas, where they feed blooms of one-celled plants and animals. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) 1n any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue Syn|Hypo|Hyper food vitellus, yolk nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) comfort foodfood that is simply prepared and gives a sense of wellbeing; typically food with a high sugar or carbohydrate content that is associated with childhood or with home cooking comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victualsany substance that can be used as food farethe food and drink that are regularly served or consumed food product, foodstuffa substance that can be used or prepared for use as food aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victualsa source of materials to nourish the body commissariat, provender, provisions, viands, victualsa stock or supply of foods feed, provenderfood for domestic livestock manna, manna from heaven, miraculous food(Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus beverage, drink, drinkable, potableany liquid suitable for drinking watera liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants soul foodfood traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the South micronutrienta substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) chymea semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum culture medium, medium(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms milkproduced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young tuckeatables (especially sweets) coursepart of a meal served at one time dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treatsomething considered choice to eat disha particular item of prepared food fast foodinexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly finger foodfood to be eaten with the fingers ingestasolid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth kosherfood that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law dietthe usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal) dieta prescribed selection of foods dietarya regulated daily food allowance menuthe dishes making up a meal chow, chuck, eats, grubinformal terms for a meal board, tablefood or meals in general rationthe food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel) starchesfoodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread) breadstuffflour or meal or grain used in baking bread coloring, colouring, food color, food coloring, food colour, food colouringa digestible substance used to give color to food concentratea concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water mealcoarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse fiber, roughagecoarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis flourfine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain blood mealthe dried and powdered blood of animals corn gluten feeda feed consisting primarily of corn gluten food cachefood in a secure or hidden storage place lardera supply of food especially for a household frozen food, frozen foodsfood preserved by freezing canned food, canned foods, canned goods, tinned goodsfood preserved by canning dehydrated food, dehydrated foodsfood preserved by dehydration meal, repastthe food served and eaten at one time Saint-John's-bread, carob, carob powderpowder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree; used as a chocolate substitute tapiocagranular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings messsoft semiliquid food mincefood chopped into small bits pureefood prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender cocoapowder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed cattle cakea concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes creep feedfeed given to young animals isolated in a creep foddercoarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop feed graingrain grown for cattle feed ensilage, silagefodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo oil cakemass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock cereal, food grain, grainfoodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses stodgeheavy and filling (and usually starchy) food wheat germembryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swillwet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk mashmixture of ground animal feeds cud, rechewed foodfood of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again bird feed, bird food, birdseedfood given to birds; usually mixed seeds pet food, pet-food, petfoodfood prepared for animal pets mastnuts of forest trees used as feed for swine fixings, ingredientfood that is a component of a mixture in cooking egg, eggsoval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food dairy productmilk and butter and cheese milka white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings milkany of several nutritive milklike liquids curda coagulated liquid resembling milk curd wish-washany thin watery drink concoction, intermixture, mixtureany foodstuff made by combining different ingredients potiona medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicanta liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent hydromelhoney diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented oenomelwine mixed with honey near beerdrink that resembles beer but with less than 1/2 percent alcohol ginger beercarbonated slightly alcoholic drink flavored with fermented ginger mixerclub soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcohol cooleran iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice refreshera drink that refreshes smoothiea thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk fizzan effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic) cider, cydera beverage made from juice pressed from apples chocolate, cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolatea beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot juicethe liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking fruit crush, fruit juicedrink produced by squeezing or crushing fruit ade, fruit drinka sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice mateSouth American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate soft drinknonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated) coffee, javaa beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans teaa beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water tea-like drinka beverage that resembles tea but is not made from tea leaves branch waterpure natural water from a stream or brook; often distinguished from soda water spring waterwater from a spring drinking waterwater suitable for drinking perishable, spoilablefood that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated fish mealground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock agar, nutrient agarany culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent vitaminany of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism substance a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties 2n any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis Hypo|Hyper water a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants branch waterpure natural water from a stream or brook; often distinguished from soda water spring waterwater from a spring drinking waterwater suitable for drinking substance a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties 3adj of or providing nourishment Syn alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive wholesome conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being |
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