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heart-healthy

heart-healthy adjective: tending to prevent premature heart disease.

Adjective

heart-healthy (comparative heart-healthier or more heart-healthy, superlative heart-healthiest or most heart-healthy)

  1. Tending to prevent premature heart disease.
    • The Mediterranean diet is rich in heart-healthy foods such as vegetables, grains, fish, fruit, olive oil, and nuts.

Forms of heart-healthy

comparativeheart-healthier
comparativemore heart-healthy
superlativeheart-healthiest
superlativemost heart-healthy

Origin of heart-healthy

From heart health + -y.

Questions about heart-healthy

What does heart-healthy mean?
Heart-healthy means tending to prevent premature heart disease.
What part of speech is heart-healthy?
Heart-healthy is an adjective.

Words near heart-healthy in the dictionary

  1. heart-failures
  2. heart-felt
  3. heart-free
  4. heart-hand disease
  5. heart-hand diseases
  6. heart-healthy
  7. heart-leaf
  8. heart-leaved globe daisies
  9. heart-leaved globe daisy
  10. heart-leaved poison
  11. heart-leaves

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