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Meaning of nutriture | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈnjuːtɹɪtjʊə(ɹ)

Definitions

  1. nutrition; nourishment
    obsolete, uncountable
  2. The process of digesting and absorbing specified nutrients through diet.
    uncountable

Examples

“Never make a meal of flesh alone, have some other meat with it of less nutriture.”
“The solitary life of Haller in his old age was very triste: the nutriture of his mind lay in the letters of the learned, and in his immense library .”
“That the prejudice, happily for Britain, much less popular, now, than it was a few years since, which attributes to intoxicating liquors, generally, a pre-eminent nutriture, is a warmly controverted point, the reader need not be told.”
“The program was designed ( a ) to provide evidence concerning the status of iodine nutriture in the United States and the extent of iodine deficiency, ( b ) to examine the efficacy of existing methods of preventing iodine deficiency and, especially, why iodization sometimes fails, ( c ) to explore possible changes in methodology of iodization and ( d ) to determine if there are causes of goiter in the United States other than iodine deficiency.”
“Thus, in any consideration of the iron nutriture of adolescents, biological variability must be taken into account.”
“What range of coenzym saturation is indicative of adequate vitamin nutriture?”
“A negative association between copper nutriture and fetal growth was found in four studies.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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