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meliorant

meliorant is the alternative form of ameliorant.

Meaning of ameliorant

Noun

ameliorant (plural ameliorants)

  1. A substance that helps plants grow by improving the physical condition of the soil.
  2. Anything that improves something else.
    • […] as an ameliorant used to facilitate work with flour lacking in elasticity.2006, Steven Laurence Kaplan, Good Bread Is Back

Forms of meliorant

pluralmeliorants

Questions about meliorant

What is meliorant the alternative form of?
Meliorant is the alternative form of ameliorant.

Words near meliorant in the dictionary

  1. melioidotic
  2. meliolaceous
  3. melioline
  4. meliorability
  5. meliorable
  6. meliorant
  7. meliorants
  8. meliorate
  9. meliorated
  10. meliorater
  11. melioraters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meliorant (page history and authors); ameliorant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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