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nutrication

nutrication noun: feeding or nourishment.

Noun

nutrication

  1. (obsolete) feeding or nourishment
    • Beside the remarkable teeth, the tongue of this animal is a second argument to overthrow this airy nutrication1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of nutrication

From Latin nutricatio, from nutricare, nutricari (“to suckle, nourish”), from nutrix (“a nurse”).

Questions about nutrication

What does nutrication mean?
Nutrication means feeding or nourishment.
What part of speech is nutrication?
Nutrication is a noun.

Words near nutrication in the dictionary

  1. nutrias
  2. nutriate
  3. nutriated
  4. nutriates
  5. nutriating
  6. nutrication
  7. nutriceutical
  8. nutriceuticals
  9. nutricial
  10. nutricious
  11. nutricism

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